The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia, sentence 4

Japan chose another path and from the 1630s shut its doors to most foreigners, letting only Dutch and Chinese traders in at Nagasaki.

Who acts: Japan · What happens: choose, shut, let · To what, where: path, doors, 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 (Japan), 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	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 chose	nsubj
2	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 path	det
4	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chose	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shut	cc
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 1630s	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 1630s	det
8	1630s	1630	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	9 shut	obl
9	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chose	conj
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 doors	nmod:poss
11	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shut	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 foreigners	case
13	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 foreigners	amod
14	foreigners	foreigner	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shut	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 letting	punct
16	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 shut	advcl
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 Dutch	advmod
18	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 traders	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Chinese	cc
20	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Dutch	conj
21	traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 letting	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 Nagasaki	case
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 Nagasaki	case
24	Nagasaki	Nagasaki	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 letting	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 chose	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	choose	past	Japan	another path			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme
2	shut	past	Japan not said here	path's doors	the 1630s	to most foreigners	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient
3	let	gerund	Japan not said here	Dutch traders	Nagasaki		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trader=Theme

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: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. 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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