--- title: The monk Xuanzang walked to India in the 7th century and brought bac… — China: the Silk Road and the Tang · tree and pragmatics description: The monk Xuanzang walked to India in the 7th century and brought back Buddhist texts; centuries later the novel «Journey to the West» turned his trip into an adventure with the Monkey King. Who acts: monk, novel, India. 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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 (monk, novel, India), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:054-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang.lesson:12 # text = The monk Xuanzang walked to India in the 7th century and brought back Buddhist texts; centuries later the novel «Journey to the West» turned his trip into an adventure with the Monkey King. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 054-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang.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 ×6, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 monk monk NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Xuanzang Xuanzang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 4 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 7th 7th ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 10 amod _ _ 10 century century NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 Buddhist buddhist ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 texts text NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 17 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl:unmarked 18 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det 20 novel novel NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 21 « « NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 Journey journey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det 25 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:compound 26 » » PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 adventure adventure NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 Monkey monkey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 36 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | the monk | | India | | century | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to india=Result | | 2 | **bring back** | past | the monk *not said here* | Buddhist texts | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent text=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | past | the novel | India's trip | | a adventure with the Monkey King | | late *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent trip=Theme into adventure=Trajectory | | 4 | **trip** | | India | | | | | | nom trip «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:054-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang.lesson:12`. **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 ×6, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [China: the Silk Road and the Tang, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang/11/) - next →: [China: the Silk Road and the Tang, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang/)