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title: The monk Xuanzang walked all the way to India for holy books, and a… — China: the Silk Road and the Tang · tree and pragmatics
description: The monk Xuanzang walked all the way to India for holy books, and a later novel turned his trip into the adventures of the Monkey King. Who acts: monk, later novel, novel. A sentence of the lesson «China: the Silk Road and the Tang» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# China: the Silk Road and the Tang, sentence 6

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The monk Xuanzang walked all the way to India for holy books, and a later novel turned his trip into the adventures of the Monkey King.

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**Who acts:** monk, later novel, novel · **What happens:** walk, turn, trip, adventure · **To what, where:** way, India, trip, adventures, Monkey King

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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 (monk, later novel, novel), 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:6
# text = The monk Xuanzang walked all the way to India for holy books, and a later novel turned his trip into the adventures of 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	novel	novel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Monkey	monkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
27	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | the monk | all way | India |  |  | for holy books | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to india=Result |
| 2 | **turn** | past | a later novel | novel's trip |  | the adventures of the Monkey King |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent trip=Theme into adventure=Trajectory |
| 3 | **trip** |  | novel |  |  |  |  |  | nom trip «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **adventure** |  |  | the Monkey King |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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:6`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/).

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