Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes, sentence 6
Mansa Musa really did carry so much gold to Cairo in 1324 that its price there reportedly fell.
Who acts: Mansa, price · What happens: carry, fell · To what, where: much gold, Cairo, 1324
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, price), 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 | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | Musa | Musa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mansa | flat |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 carry | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carry | aux |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gold | amod |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Cairo | case |
| 10 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1324 | case |
| 12 | 1324 | 1324 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 carry | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 fell | mark |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 price | nmod:poss |
| 15 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 price | advmod |
| 17 | reportedly | reportedly | ADV | _ | 18 fell | advmod |
| 18 | fell | fell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carry | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · do-support | Mansa | much gold | Cairo | 1324 | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gold=Theme to cairo=Destination | ||
| 2 | fell | past | gold's price | reportedly property | tree rules |
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:6.
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 ×3, 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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