China: the Silk Road and the Tang, sentence 8

The Silk Road was a network of land and sea trade routes linking China with Central Asia, India, Persia, the Middle East and Europe, from the Han period onward.

Who acts: Silk, land trade routes · What happens: be, link · To what, where: network, China, Han period

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, land trade routes), 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	3 Road	det
2	Silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 network	nsubj
3	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Silk	appos
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 network	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 network	det
6	network	network	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 routes	case
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 routes	compound
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sea	cc
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 land	conj
11	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 routes	compound
12	routes	route	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 network	nmod
13	linking	link	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 routes	acl
14	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 linking	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 Asia	case
16	Central	Central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Asia	amod
17	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 linking	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 India	punct
19	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Asia	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Persia	punct
21	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Asia	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 East	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 East	det
24	Middle	Middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 East	amod
25	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Asia	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Europe	cc
27	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Asia	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 period	punct
29	from	from	ADP	_	32 period	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 period	det
31	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 period	compound
32	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 linking	obl
33	onward	onward	ADV	_	32 period	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 network	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Silk	a network				of land trade routes	tree rules
2	link	gerund	land trade routes not said here	China		the Han period		with Central Asia and India and Persia and the Middle East and Europe	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent china=Patient with asia=Co-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:8.

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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