Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news, sentence 7

Paper was made in China by about 100 CE; it reached Samarkand around 751, Baghdad around 794, Spain in the 1100s and later the rest of Europe.

Who acts: 100 CE, paper · What happens: make, reach · To what, where: Paper, China, Samarkand, 1100s

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» 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 (100 CE, paper), 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	Paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 China	case
5	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 CE	case
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 100	advmod
8	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 CE	nummod
9	CE	ce	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 reached	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reached	nsubj
12	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
13	Samarkand	Samarkand	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 reached	obj
14	around	around	ADP	_	15 751	case
15	751	751	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 Samarkand	list
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Baghdad	punct
17	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Samarkand	nmod:unmarked
18	around	around	ADV	_	19 794	advmod
19	794	794	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 Samarkand	list
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Spain	punct
21	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Samarkand	nmod:unmarked
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 1100s	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 1100s	det
24	1100s	1100	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	12 reached	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 rest	cc
26	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 rest	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rest	det
28	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Europe	case
30	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 rest	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive	100 CE	Paper		China			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product
2	reach	past	paper	Samarkand Baghdad Spain		the 1100s			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent samarkand=Theme

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:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.lesson:7.

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): 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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