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title: A legend says Li Bai drowned reaching for the Moon's reflection, but… — China: the Silk Road and the Tang · tree and pragmatics
description: A legend says Li Bai drowned reaching for the Moon's reflection, but he probably died of illness. Who acts: legend, Li. A sentence of the lesson «China: the Silk Road and the Tang» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# China: the Silk Road and the Tang, sentence 15

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A legend says Li Bai drowned reaching for the Moon's reflection, but he probably died of illness.

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**Who acts:** legend, Li · **What happens:** say, drown, reach, die · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Silk Road and the Tang» 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 (legend, Li), 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:15
# text = A legend says Li Bai drowned reaching for the Moon's reflection, but he probably died of illness.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Li	Li	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Bai	Bai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	drowned	drown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	reflection	reflection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a legend |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **drown** | past | Li |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reach** | gerund | Li *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the Moon's reflection | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **die** | past | Li |  |  |  |  | of illness; probably *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of illness=Causer |

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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.

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**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:15`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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