--- title: But at its start in 1337 the Mongol peace that had made the roads sa… — The Silk Road · tree and pragmatics description: But at its start in 1337 the Mongol peace that had made the roads safe was already breaking into rival khanates, and after about 1500 more Asian goods went to Europe by sea. Who acts: Mongol peace, more Asian goods, chain. 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/8/) [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/) / 8 # The Silk Road, sentence 8 But at its start in 1337 the Mongol peace that had made the roads safe was already breaking into rival khanates, and after about 1500 more Asian goods went to Europe by sea. **Who acts:** Mongol peace, more Asian goods, chain · **What happens:** make, break, go, start · **To what, where:** roads, start, Europe 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 peace, more Asian goods, chain), 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:8 # text = But at its start in 1337 the Mongol peace that had made the roads safe was already breaking into rival khanates, and after about 1500 more Asian goods went to Europe by sea. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 1337 1337 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Mongol mongol PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 9 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 already already ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 breaking break VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 rival rival ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 khanates khanate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 24 after after ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 about about ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 1500 1500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 obl _ _ 27 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 28 Asian Asian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 30 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 30 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past · perfect | the Mongol peace | the roads | | | | safe *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset road=Product | | 2 | **break** | past · progressive | the Mongol peace | | | chain's start in 1337 | | into rival khanates | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at start=Location | | 3 | **go** | past | more Asian goods | | | Europe | after 1500 | by sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to europe=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **start** | | chain | | | | | | nom start «event 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:8`. **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, 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/7/) - next →: [The Silk Road, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/)