Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes, sentence 16

Mansa Musa ruled the Mali Empire; on his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 he gave away so much gold in Cairo that its value there reportedly fell.

Who acts: Mansa, value, gold · What happens: rule, give away, fall, value · To what, where: Mali Empire, much gold, pilgrimage

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 (Mansa, value, gold), 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	Mansa	Mansa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ruled	nsubj
2	Musa	Musa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mansa	flat
3	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Empire	det
5	Mali	Mali	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Empire	compound
6	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ruled	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 pilgrimage	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pilgrimage	nmod:poss
10	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Mecca	case
12	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 pilgrimage	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 1324	case
14	1324	1324	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 pilgrimage	nmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ruled	parataxis
17	away	away	ADP	_	16 gave	compound:prt
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gold	amod
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 Cairo	case
22	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 fell	mark
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 value	nmod:poss
25	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	nsubj
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 value	advmod
27	reportedly	reportedly	ADV	_	28 fell	advmod
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gave	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ruled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rule	past	Mansa	the Mali Empire			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent empire=Result
2	give away	past	Mansa	much gold	Mansa's pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324	in Cairo	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
3	fall	past	gold's value			reportedly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	value		gold				nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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:16.

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, R5-strong ×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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