China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, sentence 10

The First Emperor was also very harsh: forced labour, the burning of books and cruel punishments are recorded, and his dynasty fell soon after he died.

Who acts: First Emperor, dynasty, Qin · What happens: be, force, record, fall, die · To what, where: forced labour

This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall» 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 (First Emperor, dynasty, Qin), 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	3 Emperor	det
2	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 Emperor	amod
3	Emperor	emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 harsh	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 harsh	cop
5	also	also	ADV	_	7 harsh	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 harsh	advmod
7	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 labour	punct
9	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 labour	amod
10	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 recorded	nsubj:pass
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 burning	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 burning	det
13	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 labour	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 books	case
15	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 burning	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 punishments	cc
17	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 punishments	amod
18	punishments	punishment	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 books	conj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 recorded	aux:pass
20	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 harsh	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fell	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fell	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 dynasty	nmod:poss
24	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fell	nsubj
25	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 recorded	conj
26	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 fell	advmod
27	after	after	SCONJ	_	29 died	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 died	nsubj
29	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fell	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 harsh	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the First Emperor		harsh property	tree rules
2	force	participle				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	record	present · passive		forced labour and the burning of books and cruel punishments		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	fall	past	Qin's dynasty		soon property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	die	past	Qin			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:052-china-the-first-emperor-the-terracotta-army-and-the-great-wall.lesson:10.

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, R8-pos-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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