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title: The name "Silk Road" was invented by a German geographer, Ferdinand… — The Silk Road · tree and pragmatics
description: The name "Silk Road" was invented by a German geographer, Ferdinand von Richthofen, in 1877. Who acts: German geographer. 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.
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# The Silk Road, sentence 22

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The name "Silk Road" was invented by a German geographer, Ferdinand von Richthofen, in 1877.

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**Who acts:** German geographer · **What happens:** invent · **To what, where:** name, 1877

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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 (German geographer), 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:22
# text = The name "Silk Road" was invented by a German geographer, Ferdinand von Richthofen, in 1877.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Silk	Silk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	geographer	geographer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Ferdinand	Ferdinand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	14	flat	_	_
16	Richthofen	Richthofen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1877	1877	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invent** | past · passive | a German geographer | the name |  | 1877 |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |

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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.

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**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:22`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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