--- title: Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire in West Africa, made his pilgri… — The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval wo… · tree and pragmatics description: Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire in West Africa, made his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 and gave away so much gold that its price fell in Cairo. Who acts: Mansa, price. 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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 (Mansa, price), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:022-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world.lesson:17 # text = Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire in West Africa, made his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 and gave away so much gold that its price fell in Cairo. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 022-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mansa Mansa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 2 Musa Musa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Mali Mali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 13 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 pilgrimage pilgrimage NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Mecca Mecca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 1324 1324 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 away away ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 24 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 25 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Cairo Cairo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 13 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 | Mansa | Mansa's pilgrimage | | 1324 | | to Mecca | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pilgrimage=Product | | 2 | **give away** | past | Mansa *not said here* | much gold | | | | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | | 3 | **fall** | past | gold's price | | | Cairo | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cairo=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. 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