--- title: Both miss something: it was a web of land and sea routes with China… — China: the Silk Road and the Tang · tree and pragmatics description: Both miss something: it was a web of land and sea routes with China at one end, and merchants of many peoples, like the Sogdians, carried goods both ways. Who acts: Both, silk. 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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 (Both, silk), 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:2 # text = Both miss something: it was a web of land and sea routes with China at one end, and merchants of many peoples, like the Sogdians, carried goods both ways. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Both both DET DT PronType=Tot 2 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 2 miss miss VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 obj _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 routes route NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 merchants merchant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Sogdians sogdian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 31 goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 30 obj _ _ 32 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **miss** | present | Both | something | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | past | silk | a web and merchants of many peoples and the Sogdians | | | at one end | of land routes; with China | tree rules | | 3 | **carry** | past | silk *not said here* | goods | | | | both ways *obl:unmarked* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme | 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:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [China: the Silk Road and the Tang, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang/1/) - next →: [China: the Silk Road and the Tang, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang/)