China: the Silk Road and the Tang, sentence 16

Wu Zetian ruled as emperor in her own name from 690 to 705, the only woman to do so; later, Empress Dowager Cixi held great power without the title.

Who acts: Wu, Cixi · What happens: rule, do, hold, name · To what, where: own name, great power

This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Silk Road and the Tang» 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 (Wu, Cixi), 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	Wu	Wu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ruled	nsubj
2	Zetian	Zetian	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wu	flat
3	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 emperor	case
5	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ruled	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 name	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 name	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 name	amod
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ruled	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 690	case
11	690	690	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 ruled	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 705	case
13	705	705	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 690	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 woman	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 name	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 woman	acl
20	so	so	ADV	_	19 do	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 Dowager	punct
22	later	late	ADV	_	25 Dowager	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 later	punct
24	Empress	empress	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Dowager	compound
25	Dowager	dowager	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ruled	conj
26	Cixi	Cixi	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 held	nsubj
27	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 Dowager	acl:relcl
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 power	amod
29	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 held	obj
30	without	without	ADP	_	32 title	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 title	det
32	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 held	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ruled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rule	past	Wu		Wu's own name and the only woman	as emperor; from 690 to 705	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	do	to-infinitive	Wu not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hold	past	Cixi	great power		without the title	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme
4	name		Wu				nom name «communication 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:054-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang.lesson:16.

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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