How empires fell: the map of the 20th century, sentence 4

The breaking up went on to the end of the century: the Soviet Union split into 15 countries in 1991, and Hong Kong and Macau went back to China in 1997 and 1999.

Who acts: breaking, Soviet Union, Hong · What happens: go on, split, go back · To what, where: 15 countries, China, 1997

This is a sentence of the lesson «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» 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 (breaking, Soviet Union, Hong), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 breaking	det
2	breaking	breaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 breaking	compound:prt
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 century	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 century	det
11	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	nmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 split	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Union	det
14	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Union	compound
15	Union	Union	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 split	nsubj
16	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 countries	case
18	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 countries	nummod
19	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 split	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 1991	case
21	1991	1991	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 split	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
24	Hong	Hong	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 went	nsubj
25	Kong	Kong	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Hong	flat
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Macau	cc
27	Macau	Macau	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Hong	conj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 split	conj
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 China	case
31	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 1997	case
33	1997	1997	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 went	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 1999	cc
35	1999	1999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 1997	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the breaking			to the end of the century		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	split	past	the Soviet Union				into 15 countries result; in 1991	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into country=Result
3	go back	past	Hong and Macau	China	1997			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to china=Result

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:037-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century.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): R6-punct-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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