--- title: In the 1200s and 1300s the Mongol Empire controlled most of the Silk… — The Silk Road · tree and pragmatics description: In the 1200s and 1300s the Mongol Empire controlled most of the Silk Road, making it safer for traders to cross. Who acts: Mongol Empire, traders. 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/16/) [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/) / 16 # The Silk Road, sentence 16 In the 1200s and 1300s the Mongol Empire controlled most of the Silk Road, making it safer for traders to cross. **Who acts:** Mongol Empire, traders · **What happens:** control, make, cross · **To what, where:** most, 1200s 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 (Mongol Empire, traders), 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:16 # text = In the 1200s and 1300s the Mongol Empire controlled most of the Silk Road, making it safer for traders to cross. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 1200s 1200 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 1300s 1300 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 3 conj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Mongol mongol PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 controlled control VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Silk Silk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 safer safe ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 xcomp _ _ 19 for for SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 20 traders trader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:acl 23 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **control** | past | the Mongol Empire | most of the Silk Road | | the 1200s and 1300s | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme | | 2 | **make** | gerund | the Mongol Empire *not said here* | | | | | safe *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **cross** | to-infinitive | traders | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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](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:16`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Silk Road, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/15/) - next →: [The Silk Road, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/)