China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages, sentence 2
Admiral Zheng He sailed seven great voyages with hundreds of ships to India, Arabia and East Africa, long before Columbus.
Who acts: Zheng · What happens: sail · To what, where: seven great voyages
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 (Zheng), 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 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Zheng | appos |
| 2 | Zheng | Zheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sailed | nsubj |
| 3 | He | he | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Zheng | flat |
| 4 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 voyages | nummod |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 voyages | amod |
| 7 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sailed | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hundreds | case |
| 9 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 voyages | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ships | case |
| 11 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hundreds | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 India | case |
| 13 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ships | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Arabia | punct |
| 15 | Arabia | Arabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 India | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 East | cc |
| 17 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 India | conj |
| 18 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 East | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 long | punct |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 sailed | advmod |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 Columbus | case |
| 22 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sailed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sailed | 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 | sail | past | Zheng | seven great voyages | before Columbus | with hundreds of ships to India and Arabia and East; long property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Theme |
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:2.
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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