--- title: What really happened: the Silk Road was a web of many routes, few tr… — Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes · tree and pragmatics description: What really happened: the Silk Road was a web of many routes, few traders went the whole way, and goods passed from hand to hand; even the name was made up in 1877. Who acts: Silk Road, few traders. 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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 (Silk Road, few traders), 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:4 # text = What really happened: the Silk Road was a web of many routes, few traders went the whole way, and goods passed from hand to hand; even the name was made up in 1877. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 really really ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Silk Silk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 routes route NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 traders trader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 even even ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:advmod 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 1877 1877 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **happen** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | the Silk Road | a web | | | | of many routes | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | past | few traders | the whole way | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | | 4 | **pass** | past · passive | | goods | | hand | | to hand | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from hand=Initial\_Location to hand=Destination | | 5 | **make up** | past · passive | | the name | | 1877 | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot | 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:4`. **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, R6-punct-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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