--- title: Caravanserais, inns spaced about a day's journey apart, gave caravan… — The Silk Road · tree and pragmatics description: Caravanserais, inns spaced about a day's journey apart, gave caravans safe places to rest. Who acts: Caravanserais, day. A sentence of the lesson «The Silk Road» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [The Silk Road](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/) / 14 # The Silk Road, sentence 14 Caravanserais, inns spaced about a day's journey apart, gave caravans safe places to rest. **Who acts:** Caravanserais, day · **What happens:** space, give, rest, journey · **To what, where:** inns, safe places, caravans This is a sentence of the lesson «The Silk Road» of the geography 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 (Caravanserais, day), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:028-the-silk-road.lesson:14 # text = Caravanserais, inns spaced about a day's journey apart, gave caravans safe places to rest. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 028-the-silk-road.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Caravanserais caravanserai NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 inns inn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 4 spaced space VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 apart apart ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 12 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 caravans caravan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj 14 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **space** | participle | | inns *not said here* | | | | about a day's journey; apart *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | past | Caravanserais | safe places | caravans | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent caravan=Recipient place=Theme | | 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | Caravanserais *not said here* | safe places *not said here* | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **journey** | | a day | | | | | | nom journey «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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:geography:028-the-silk-road.lesson:14`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Silk Road, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/13/) - next →: [The Silk Road, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/)