The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia, sentence 16
From the 1630s Japan's Tokugawa rulers strictly limited contact with foreigners, allowing only Dutch and Chinese traders at Nagasaki, until the 1850s.
Who acts: Tokugawa rulers · What happens: limit, allow · To what, where: contact, 1630s, Dutch traders, Nagasaki
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» of the geography 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 (Tokugawa rulers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 1630s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 1630s | det |
| 3 | 1630s | 1630 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 9 limited | obl |
| 4 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rulers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Japan | case |
| 6 | Tokugawa | Tokugawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rulers | compound |
| 7 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 limited | nsubj |
| 8 | strictly | strictly | ADV | _ | 9 limited | advmod |
| 9 | limited | limit | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 limited | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 foreigners | case |
| 12 | foreigners | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 contact | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 1630s | punct |
| 14 | allowing | allow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 limited | advcl |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 Dutch | advmod |
| 16 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 traders | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Chinese | cc |
| 18 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Dutch | conj |
| 19 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 allowing | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 Nagasaki | case |
| 21 | Nagasaki | Nagasaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 allowing | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 1850s | punct |
| 23 | until | until | ADP | _ | 25 1850s | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 1850s | det |
| 25 | 1850s | 1850 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 14 allowing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 limited | punct |
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 | limit | past | Japan's Tokugawa rulers | contact | the 1630s | with foreigners; strictly property | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer contact=Patient | ||
| 2 | allow | gerund | Japan's Tokugawa rulers not said here | Dutch traders | Nagasaki | until the 1850s | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trader=Beneficiary |
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, 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:geography:035-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia.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): no change. 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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