--- title: Chess travelled to Persia, the Arab world and Europe and changed int… — Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers · tree and pragmatics description: Chess travelled to Persia, the Arab world and Europe and changed into the game we play today; the chaturanga elephant, standing next to the horse, became today's bishop. Who acts: Chess, we, chaturanga elephant. 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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 (Chess, we, chaturanga elephant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:008-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers.lesson:15 # text = Chess travelled to Persia, the Arab world and Europe and changed into the game we play today; the chaturanga elephant, standing next to the horse, became today's bishop. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 008-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Chess chess NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Persia Persia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Arab Arab ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 chaturanga chaturanga NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 acl _ _ 25 next next ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 31 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 bishop bishop NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | past | Chess | | Persia and the Arab world and Europe | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to persia=Destination | | 2 | **change** | past | Chess *not said here* | | | | | into the game *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into game=Result | | 3 | **play** | present | we | the game *not said here* | | | today | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | | 4 | **stand** | gerund | the chaturanga elephant *not said here* | | | | | to the horse; next *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **become** | past | the chaturanga elephant | today's bishop | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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. 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