What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, horses, words, religions and diseases, sentence 9

Tea comes from China, where it was drunk for thousands of years; it reached Britain in the 1600s, and from the 1830s British companies grew tea in India.

Who acts: Tea, British companies · What happens: come, drink, reach, grow · To what, where: China, tea, Britain, 1600s, 1830s

This is a sentence of the lesson «What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, horses, words, religions and diseases» 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 (Tea, British companies), 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	Tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 China	case
4	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drunk	punct
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 drunk	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 drunk	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 drunk	aux:pass
9	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 China	acl:relcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 thousands	case
11	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 drunk	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 years	case
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thousands	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 reached	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 reached	nsubj
16	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 comes	parataxis
17	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 reached	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 1600s	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 1600s	det
20	1600s	1600	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	16 reached	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 grew	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 grew	cc
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 1830s	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 1830s	det
25	1830s	1830	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 grew	obl
26	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 companies	amod
27	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 grew	nsubj
28	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 reached	conj
29	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grew	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 India	case
31	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 grew	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	Tea		China		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from china=Initial_Location
2	drink	past · passive		tea		for thousands of years	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	reach	past	tea	Britain	the 1600s		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent britain=Theme
4	grow	past	British companies	tea	the 1830s	in India	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient tea=Extent from 1830=Initial_State in india=Attribute

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:071-what-trade-carried-tomatoes-tea-horses-words-and-diseases.lesson:9.

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. 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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