--- title: After about 1500 more trade between Europe and Asia went by sea, bec… — The Silk Road · tree and pragmatics description: After about 1500 more trade between Europe and Asia went by sea, because ships could carry far more goods more cheaply, so the overland Silk Road became less important. Who acts: 1500 more trade, ships, overland Silk Road. A sentence of the lesson «The Silk Road» of the geography course of Mova's pr --- [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/21/) [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/) / 21 # The Silk Road, sentence 21 After about 1500 more trade between Europe and Asia went by sea, because ships could carry far more goods more cheaply, so the overland Silk Road became less important. **Who acts:** 1500 more trade, ships, overland Silk Road · **What happens:** go, carry, become · **To what, where:** more goods 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 (1500 more trade, ships, overland Silk Road), 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:21 # text = After about 1500 more trade between Europe and Asia went by sea, because ships could carry far more goods more cheaply, so the overland Silk Road became less important. # 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 After after ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 about about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 1500 1500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl 6 between between ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 18 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 19 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 amod _ _ 20 goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 17 obj _ _ 21 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 22 cheaply cheaply ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 overland overland ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 Silk Silk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 30 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 31 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | 1500 more trade between Europe and Asia | | | | | by sea | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by sea=Location | | 2 | **carry** | could | ships | more goods | | | | cheaply *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme | | 3 | **become** | past | the overland Silk Road | | | | | important *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:21`. **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, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/20/) - next →: [The Silk Road, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/)