China: the Silk Road and the Tang, sentence 4
Silk, paper, porcelain and tea went west; horses, glass, grapes and cotton came east, and so did ideas, like Buddhism from India.
Who acts: Silk, horses · What happens: go, come, do · To what, where: ideas
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 (Silk, horses), 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 | Silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 paper | punct |
| 3 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Silk | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 porcelain | punct |
| 5 | porcelain | porcelain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Silk | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tea | cc |
| 7 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Silk | conj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | west | west | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 horses | punct |
| 11 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 came | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 glass | punct |
| 13 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 horses | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grapes | punct |
| 15 | grapes | grape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 horses | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cotton | cc |
| 17 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 horses | conj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | parataxis |
| 19 | east | east | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 did | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 did | cc |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 did | advmod |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 24 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 did | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Buddhism | punct |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 Buddhism | case |
| 27 | Buddhism | Buddhism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 ideas | nmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 India | case |
| 29 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Buddhism | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Silk and paper and porcelain and tea | west property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | horses and glass and grapes and cotton | east property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | horses and glass and grapes and cotton not said here | ideas | like Buddhism from India | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Eventuality |
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:4.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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