--- title: About 600 years ago the admiral Zheng He sailed huge Chinese ships t… — Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Co… · tree and pragmatics description: About 600 years ago the admiral Zheng He sailed huge Chinese ships to India, Arabia and East Africa, and brought back gifts including a giraffe. Who acts: Zheng. 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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 (Zheng), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:010-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius.lesson:17 # text = About 600 years ago the admiral Zheng He sailed huge Chinese ships to India, Arabia and East Africa, and brought back gifts including a giraffe. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 010-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius.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 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 600 600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl:unmarked 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 6 admiral admiral NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:desc _ _ 7 Zheng Zheng PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 He he PROPN NNP _ 7 flat _ _ 9 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Arabia Arabia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 23 back back ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound:prt 24 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 including include ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 . . 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 | **sail** | past | Zheng the admiral | huge Chinese ships | India and Arabia and East | | | ago *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent ship=Location | | 2 | **bring back** | past | Zheng the admiral *not said here* | gifts | | | | include a giraffe | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gift=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:history:010-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius.lesson:17`. **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. **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. 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