China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties, sentence 19

In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, 770–221 BC, China was split into rival states fighting each other, until the state of Qin united it in 221 BC.

Who acts: rival states, state · What happens: split, fight, unite · To what, where: China, rival states, each, Art, 221

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 (rival states, state), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 Spring	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Spring	det
3	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 split	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Autumn	cc
5	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Spring	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 periods	cc
7	Warring	Warring	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 States	compound
8	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 periods	compound
9	periods	period	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Spring	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 770	punct
11	770	770	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 Spring	appos
12	–	-	PUNCT	_	11 770	punct
13	221	221	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 770	flat
14	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 770	nmod:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Spring	punct
16	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 split	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 split	aux:pass
18	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 states	case
20	rival	rival	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 states	amod
21	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 split	obl
22	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 states	acl
23	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	22 fighting	obj
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 each	fixed
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 united	punct
26	until	until	SCONJ	_	31 united	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 state	det
28	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 united	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Qin	case
30	Qin	Qin	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 state	nmod
31	united	unite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 split	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 united	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 221	case
34	221	221	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 united	obl
35	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 221	nmod:unmarked
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 split	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past · passive		China		spring	into rival states result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into state=Result
2	fight	gerund	rival states not said here	each				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent
3	unite	past	the state of Qin	Art	221 BC			vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:19.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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