China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, sentence 17

The Han dynasty, 206 BC–220 AD, was so important that the majority people of China call themselves Han, and Chinese characters are «Han characters»; China also has 55 officially recognised minorities.

Who acts: Han dynasty, majority people, Chinese characters, China · What happens: be, call, have, recognise · To what, where: people, Han characters, 55 recognised minorities · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Han dynasty, majority people, Chinese characters, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dynasty	det
2	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dynasty	compound
3	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 important	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 206	punct
5	206	206	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 dynasty	appos
6	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 206	nmod:unmarked
7	–	–	X	ExtPos=PROPN	5 206	appos
8	220	220	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 AD	nummod
9	AD	ad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 –	goeswith
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dynasty	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 important	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 important	advmod
13	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 call	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 people	det
16	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 people	compound
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 call	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 China	case
19	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 people	nmod
20	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 important	ccomp
21	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 call	obj
22	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 call	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 characters	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 characters	cc
25	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 characters	amod
26	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 characters	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 characters	cop
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 characters	punct
29	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 characters	compound
30	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 call	conj
31	»	»	PUNCT	_	30 characters	punct
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 has	punct
33	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 has	nsubj
34	also	also	ADV	_	35 has	advmod
35	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 important	parataxis
36	55	55	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	39 minorities	nummod
37	officially	officially	ADV	_	38 recognised	advmod
38	recognised	recognise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 minorities	amod
39	minorities	minority	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 has	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 important	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Han dynasty		important property	tree rules
2	call speech: assert	infinitive	the majority people of China	people		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	present	Chinese characters	Han characters		tree rules
4	have	present	China	55 recognised minorities		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minority=Patient
5	recognise	participle			officially property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:17.

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): 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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