China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties, sentence 15
Confucius, 551–479 BC, taught respect for family, love of learning, fair rulers and good behaviour; his ideas shaped China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam.
Who acts: Confucius, ideas · What happens: teach, shape, love · To what, where: respect, China, learning
This is a sentence of the lesson «China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties» of the history 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 (Confucius, ideas), 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 | Confucius | Confucius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 taught | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 551 | punct |
| 3 | 551 | 551 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Confucius | appos |
| 4 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 479 | punct |
| 5 | 479 | 479 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 551 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | BC | BC | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 479 | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Confucius | punct |
| 8 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taught | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 family | case |
| 11 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 respect | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 love | punct |
| 13 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 family | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 learning | case |
| 15 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 love | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rulers | punct |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rulers | amod |
| 18 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 respect | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 behaviour | cc |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 behaviour | amod |
| 21 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rulers | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 ideas | punct |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 ideas | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 shaped | nsubj |
| 25 | shaped | shape | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taught | parataxis |
| 26 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 shaped | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Korea | punct |
| 28 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 China | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Japan | punct |
| 30 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 China | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Vietnam | cc |
| 32 | Vietnam | Vietnam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 China | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | Confucius | respect and fair rulers and good behaviour | for family and love of learning | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient | |||
| 2 | shape | past | BC's ideas | China and Korea and Japan and Vietnam | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset china=Product | ||||
| 3 | love | learning | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=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, 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:051-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties.lesson:15.
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, R7-rel-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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