Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes, sentence 10
Sharp volcanic glass called obsidian travelled hundreds of kilometres over 10,000 years ago.
Who acts: Sharp volcanic glass · What happens: call, travel · To what, where: obsidian, hundreds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» 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 (Sharp volcanic glass), 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 | Sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 glass | amod |
| 2 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 glass | amod |
| 3 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 travelled | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 glass | acl |
| 5 | obsidian | obsidian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 travelled | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 kilometres | case |
| 9 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hundreds | nmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 10,000 | advmod |
| 11 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 travelled | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Sharp volcanic glass not said here | obsidian | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | travel | past | Sharp volcanic glass | hundreds of kilometres | ago property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hundred=Trajectory |
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:070-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes.lesson:10.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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