China: the Silk Road and the Tang, sentence 6

The monk Xuanzang walked all the way to India for holy books, and a later novel turned his trip into the adventures of the Monkey King.

Who acts: monk, later novel, novel · What happens: walk, turn, trip, adventure · To what, where: way, India, trip, adventures, Monkey King

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 (monk, later novel, novel), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monk	det
2	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	nsubj
3	Xuanzang	Xuanzang	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 monk	appos
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 way	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 India	case
9	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 books	case
11	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 books	amod
12	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 turned	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 turned	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 novel	det
16	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 novel	amod
17	novel	novel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turned	nsubj
18	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 trip	nmod:poss
20	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turned	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 adventures	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 adventures	det
23	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 turned	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 King	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 King	det
26	Monkey	monkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 King	compound
27	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 adventures	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	the monk	all way	India		for holy books	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to india=Result
2	turn	past	a later novel	novel's trip		the adventures of the Monkey King		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent trip=Theme into adventure=Trajectory
3	trip		novel					nom trip «act transitive»: poss=agent
4	adventure			the Monkey King				nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient

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:6.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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