--- title: Further south, West Africa had rich kingdoms too: Mansa Musa of Mali… — The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval wo… · tree and pragmatics description: Further south, West Africa had rich kingdoms too: Mansa Musa of Mali gave away so much gold on his journey to Mecca that the price of gold fell in Cairo. Who acts: West Africa, Mansa Musa, price, Musa. 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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 (West Africa, Mansa Musa, price, Musa), 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:4 # text = Further south, West Africa had rich kingdoms too: Mansa Musa of Mali gave away so much gold on his journey to Mecca that the price of gold 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): no change 1 Further further ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 south south ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 kingdoms kingdom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 too too ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 Mansa Mansa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Musa Musa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Mali Mali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 16 away away ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Mecca Mecca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Cairo Cairo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 . . 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 | **have** | past | West Africa | rich kingdoms | | | | further *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient | | 2 | **give away** | past | Mansa Musa of Mali | much gold | | Musa's journey to Mecca | | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | | 3 | **fall** | past | the price of gold | | | Cairo | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cairo=Location | | 4 | **journey** | | Musa | | | | | to Mecca | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | 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:022-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world.lesson:4`. **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. 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