China: the Silk Road and the Tang, sentence 2

Both miss something: it was a web of land and sea routes with China at one end, and merchants of many peoples, like the Sogdians, carried goods both ways.

Who acts: Both, silk · What happens: miss, be, carry · To what, where: something, web, one end, goods

This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Silk Road and the Tang» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Both, silk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 miss	nsubj
2	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 miss	obj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 miss	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 web	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 web	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 web	det
8	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 miss	parataxis
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 routes	case
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 routes	compound
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sea	cc
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 land	conj
13	routes	route	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 web	nmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 China	case
15	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 web	nmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 end	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 end	nummod
18	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 web	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 merchants	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 merchants	cc
21	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 web	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 peoples	case
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 peoples	amod
24	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 merchants	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Sogdians	punct
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 Sogdians	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Sogdians	det
28	Sogdians	sogdian	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 merchants	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 carried	punct
30	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 web	conj
31	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	30 carried	obj
32	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	33 ways	det
33	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 carried	obl:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 miss	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	miss	present	Both	something			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
2	is a	past	silk	a web and merchants of many peoples and the Sogdians	at one end	of land routes; with China	tree rules
3	carry	past	silk not said here	goods		both ways obl:unmarked	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:history:054-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang.lesson:2.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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