Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes, sentence 18
Indian Ocean sailors timed their voyages with the seasonal monsoon winds, linking East Africa, Arabia, India and Southeast Asia; Swahili cities like Kilwa and Mombasa grew rich.
Who acts: Indian Ocean sailors, Swahili cities, sailors · What happens: time, link, grow, voyage · To what, where: voyages, East
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 (Indian Ocean sailors, Swahili cities, sailors), 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 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sailors | amod |
| 2 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sailors | compound |
| 3 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 timed | nsubj |
| 4 | timed | time | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 voyages | nmod:poss |
| 6 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 timed | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 winds | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 winds | det |
| 9 | seasonal | seasonal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 winds | amod |
| 10 | monsoon | monsoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 winds | compound |
| 11 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 timed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 linking | punct |
| 13 | linking | link | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 timed | advcl |
| 14 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 linking | obj |
| 15 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 East | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Arabia | punct |
| 17 | Arabia | Arabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Africa | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 India | punct |
| 19 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 East | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Asia | cc |
| 21 | Southeast | Southeast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Asia | compound |
| 22 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 India | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 cities | punct |
| 24 | Swahili | swahili | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cities | amod |
| 25 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 grew | nsubj |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 Kilwa | case |
| 27 | Kilwa | Kilwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 cities | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Mombasa | cc |
| 29 | Mombasa | Mombasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Kilwa | conj |
| 30 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 timed | parataxis |
| 31 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 grew | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 timed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | time | past | Indian Ocean sailors | sailors's voyages | with the seasonal monsoon winds | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Theme | |||
| 2 | link | gerund | Indian Ocean sailors not said here | East and India and Southeast Asia | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent east=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | Swahili cities like Kilwa and Mombasa | rich property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | voyage | sailors = sailor | nom voyage «act 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:18.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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