--- title: Marco Polo of Venice wrote a famous account of his journey to the co… — The Silk Road · tree and pragmatics description: Marco Polo of Venice wrote a famous account of his journey to the court of Kublai Khan in China in the late 1200s, though some details of his book are doubted. Who acts: Marco Polo, Polo. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marco Polo, Polo), 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:18 # text = Marco Polo of Venice wrote a famous account of his journey to the court of Kublai Khan in China in the late 1200s, though some details of his book are doubted. # 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 ×1 1 Marco Marco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Polo Polo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Venice Venice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Kublai Kublai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 Khan Khan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 1200s 1200 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 25 though though SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 26 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 27 details detail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 doubted doubt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | past | Marco Polo of Venice | a famous account of Polo's journey to the court of Kublai in China | | the late 1200s | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent account=Theme in 1200=Destination | | 2 | **doubt** | present · passive | | some details of Polo's book | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **account** | | | Polo's journey to the court of Kublai in China | | | | | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 4 | **journey** | | Polo | | | | | to the court of Kublai in China | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | | 5 | **detail** | | | Polo's book | | | | | nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:18`. **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 ×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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/17/) - next →: [The Silk Road, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/)