--- title: Silk, spices and ideas travelled along the Silk Road, which was not… — Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Co… · tree and pragmatics description: Silk, spices and ideas travelled along the Silk Road, which was not one road but a web of routes across deserts and mountains, walked by camel caravans resting at oasis towns. Who acts: Silk, Silk Road, camel caravans. 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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 (Silk, Silk Road, camel caravans), 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:3 # text = Silk, spices and ideas travelled along the Silk Road, which was not one road but a web of routes across deserts and mountains, walked by camel caravans resting at oasis towns. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 3 spices spice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 along along ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Silk Silk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:appos 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 routes route NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 across across ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 deserts desert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 walked walk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 camel camel NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 caravans caravan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl:agent _ _ 31 resting rest VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 oasis oasis NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | past | Silk and spices and ideas | | | the Silk Road | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | | 2 | **not** **is a** | past | the Silk Road | one road but a web of routes across deserts and mountains | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **walk** | participle | | one road but a web of routes across deserts and mountains *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **rest** | gerund | camel caravans *not said here* | | | oasis towns | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at town=Location | 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:3`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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