China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties, sentence 4
Egypt had a state earlier, but China's civilisation has gone on without stopping for an amazingly long time.
Who acts: Egypt, civilisation, China · What happens: have, go on, stop, civilise · To what, where: state
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 (Egypt, civilisation, China), 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 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 state | det |
| 4 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 had | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gone | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 gone | cc |
| 8 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 civilisation | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 China | case |
| 10 | civilisation | civilisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gone | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gone | aux |
| 12 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 had | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 gone | compound:prt |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 stopping | mark |
| 15 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 gone | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 18 | amazingly | amazingly | ADV | _ | 19 long | advmod |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stopping | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Egypt | a state | early property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Patient | |||
| 2 | go on | present · perfect | China's civilisation | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stop | gerund | China's civilisation not said here | time | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | civilise | China | nom civilisation «process transitive»: poss=agent |
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: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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