China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties, sentence 7

Later the Zhou kings said Heaven gave a just ruler the right to rule, and wise teachers like Confucius and Laozi wrote ideas that people still read today.

Who acts: Zhou kings, Heaven, wise teachers, people · What happens: say, give, rule, write, read · To what, where: right, ruler, ideas · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Zhou kings, Heaven, wise teachers, people), 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	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kings	det
3	Zhou	Zhou	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kings	compound
4	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gave	nsubj
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ruler	det
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 ruler	advmod
10	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	iobj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 right	det
12	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 rule	mark
14	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 right	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wrote	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wrote	cc
17	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 teachers	amod
18	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wrote	nsubj
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 Confucius	case
20	Confucius	Confucius	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 teachers	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Laozi	cc
22	Laozi	Laozi	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Confucius	conj
23	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
24	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wrote	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 read	obj
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 read	nsubj
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 read	advmod
28	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 ideas	acl
29	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 read	obl:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Zhou kings				late property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	past	Heaven	the right	a ruler			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ruler=Recipient right=Theme
3	rule	to-infinitive	Heaven not said here	the right not said here				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	write	past	wise teachers like Confucius and Laozi	ideas				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme
5	read	present	people	ideas		still; today		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic

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:7.

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 ×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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