China: the Song and the Mongols, sentence 15

The Black Death of the 14th century probably started in Central Asia and spread along trade routes to Europe; China also suffered epidemics in that century.

Who acts: Black Death, China · What happens: start, spread, suffer · To what, where: Central Asia, trade routes, epidemics

This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Song and the Mongols» 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 (Black Death, China), 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 Death	det
2	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Death	amod
3	Death	death	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 started	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 century	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 century	det
6	14th	14th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	7 century	amod
7	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Death	nmod
8	probably	probably	ADV	_	9 started	advmod
9	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 Asia	case
11	Central	Central	PROPN	_	12 Asia	compound
12	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 started	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 spread	cc
14	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 started	conj
15	along	along	ADP	_	17 routes	case
16	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 routes	compound
17	routes	route	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spread	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Europe	case
19	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 routes	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 suffered	punct
21	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 suffered	nsubj
22	also	also	ADV	_	23 suffered	advmod
23	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 started	parataxis
24	epidemics	epidemic	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 suffered	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 century	case
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 century	det
27	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 suffered	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 started	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	the Black Death of the 14th century		Central Asia		probably property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	spread	past	the Black Death of the 14th century not said here		trade routes to Europe			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along route=Location
3	suffer	past	China	epidemics		century		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer epidemic=Stimulus

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:055-china-the-song-and-the-mongols.lesson:15.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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