China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, sentence 2
He was both a unifier and a tyrant.
Who acts: Qin · What happens: be · To what, where: unifier
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 unifier | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unifier | cop |
| 3 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 5 unifier | cc:preconj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 unifier | det |
| 5 | unifier | unifier | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tyrant | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tyrant | det |
| 8 | tyrant | tyrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unifier | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unifier | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Qin | a unifier and a tyrant | tree rules |
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:2.
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): no change. 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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