--- title: Between about 800 and 200 BCE great thinkers lived in China, India,… — Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, ches… · tree and pragmatics description: Between about 800 and 200 BCE great thinkers lived in China, India, Persia, Israel and Greece, among them Confucius, the Buddha and Socrates; they did not know each other, and some historians call this the Axial Age while others say the pattern is too neat. 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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 (great thinkers, thinkers, historians, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.lesson:10 # text = Between about 800 and 200 BCE great thinkers lived in China, India, Persia, Israel and Greece, among them Confucius, the Buddha and Socrates; they did not know each other, and some historians call this the Axial Age while others say the pattern is too neat. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Between between ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 about about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 800 800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 conj _ _ 6 BCE BCE PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 7 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 thinkers thinker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Persia Persia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 Greece Greece PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 among among ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 Confucius Confucius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Buddha Buddha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:appos 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 Socrates Socrates PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 34 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 33 obj _ _ 35 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 fixed _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 39 det _ _ 39 historians historian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 41 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 obj _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 Axial axial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 Age age PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 45 while while SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 46 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj _ _ 47 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 50 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 51 too too ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 52 neat neat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 ccomp _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | great thinkers | | | China and India and Persia and Israel and Greece | | between 800; among Confucius and the Buddha and Socrates | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in china=Location | | 2 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | thinkers *= thinker* | each | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | | 3 | **call** | present | some historians | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | the pattern | | | | | neat *property* | tree rules | 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:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.lesson:10`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, let…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/9/) - next →: [Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, let…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/)