--- title: Mansa Musa ruled the Mali Empire; on his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324… — Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes · tree and pragmatics description: Mansa Musa ruled the Mali Empire; on his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 he gave away so much gold in Cairo that its value there reportedly fell. Who acts: Mansa, value, gold. 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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 (Mansa, value, gold), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:070-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes.lesson:16 # text = Mansa Musa ruled the Mali Empire; on his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 he gave away so much gold in Cairo that its value there reportedly fell. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 070-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mansa Mansa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Musa Musa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 ruled rule VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Mali Mali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 pilgrimage pilgrimage NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Mecca Mecca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 1324 1324 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nmod _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 17 away away ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Cairo Cairo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 value value NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod 27 reportedly reportedly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rule** | past | Mansa | the Mali Empire | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent empire=Result | | 2 | **give away** | past | Mansa | much gold | | Mansa's pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 | | in Cairo | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | | 3 | **fall** | past | gold's value | | | | | reportedly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **value** | | gold | | | | | | nom value «cognition 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:070-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes.lesson:16`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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. 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