China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages, sentence 13
In 1414 a giraffe from Malindi, in today's Kenya, was brought to the Ming court, where people took it for a qilin, a lucky mythical beast, and painted it.
Who acts: people · What happens: bring, take, paint · To what, where: giraffe, 1414
This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages» 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 (people), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1414 | case |
| 2 | 1414 | 1414 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 brought | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 giraffe | det |
| 4 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Malindi | case |
| 6 | Malindi | Malindi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 giraffe | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 giraffe | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Kenya | case |
| 9 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Kenya | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 today | case |
| 11 | Kenya | Kenya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 giraffe | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 giraffe | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux:pass |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 court | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 court | det |
| 17 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 court | compound |
| 18 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 took | advmod |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 court | acl:relcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 qilin | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 qilin | det |
| 26 | qilin | qilin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 beast | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 beast | det |
| 29 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 beast | amod |
| 30 | mythical | mythical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 beast | amod |
| 31 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 qilin | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 painted | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 painted | cc |
| 34 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 took | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 painted | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | a giraffe from Malindi in today's Kenya | 1414 | to the Ming court | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to court=Destination | |||
| 2 | take | past | people | giraffe | for a qilin | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for qilin=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | paint | past | people not said here | giraffe | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
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:056-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages.lesson:13.
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. 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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