Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes, sentence 4
What really happened: the Silk Road was a web of many routes, few traders went the whole way, and goods passed from hand to hand; even the name was made up in 1877.
Who acts: Silk Road, few traders · What happens: happen, be, go, pass, make up · To what, where: web, whole way, goods, hand, name, 1877
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 (Silk Road, few traders), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 web | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Road | det |
| 6 | Silk | Silk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Road | compound |
| 7 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 web | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 web | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 web | det |
| 10 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 routes | case |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 routes | amod |
| 13 | routes | route | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 web | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 traders | amod |
| 16 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 web | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 way | amod |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 passed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 passed | cc |
| 23 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 24 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | conj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 passed | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 passed | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 made | punct |
| 30 | even | even | ADV | _ | 32 name | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 name | det |
| 32 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 made | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 made | aux:pass |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happened | conj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 made | compound:prt |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 1877 | case |
| 37 | 1877 | 1877 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 made | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | 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 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the Silk Road | a web | of many routes | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | past | few traders | the whole way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pass | past · passive | goods | hand | to hand | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from hand=Initial_Location to hand=Destination | |||
| 5 | make up | past · passive | the name | 1877 | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
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:4.
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, R6-punct-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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