--- title: Genghis's grandson Kublai Khan became emperor of China, and a Veneti… — The Mongols · tree and pragmatics description: Genghis's grandson Kublai Khan became emperor of China, and a Venetian merchant called Marco Polo wrote a book about his court that amazed Europe. Who acts: grandson, Venetian merchant, court. A sentence of the lesson «The Mongols» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/4/) [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/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [The Mongols](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/) / 4 # The Mongols, sentence 4 Genghis's grandson Kublai Khan became emperor of China, and a Venetian merchant called Marco Polo wrote a book about his court that amazed Europe. **Who acts:** grandson, Venetian merchant, court · **What happens:** become, call, write, amaze · **To what, where:** emperor, Venetian merchant, book, Europe · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Mongols» of the history 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 (grandson, Venetian merchant, court), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:023-the-mongols.lesson:4 # text = Genghis's grandson Kublai Khan became emperor of China, and a Venetian merchant called Marco Polo wrote a book about his court that amazed Europe. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 023-the-mongols.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Genghis Genghis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 grandson grandson NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 Kublai Kublai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 5 Khan Khan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 xcomp _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Venetian venetian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 15 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 Marco Marco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj 17 Polo Polo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 18 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 amazed amaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | Genghis's grandson | emperor of China | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **call** | participle | | a Venetian merchant *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **write** | past | a Venetian merchant | a book | | | | about merchant's court | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent book=Recipient about court=Topic | | 4 | **amaze** | past | merchant's court | Europe | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus europe=Experiencer | 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:023-the-mongols.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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 Mongols, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/3/) - next →: [The Mongols, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/)