China: the Silk Road and the Tang, sentence 17
The An Lushan rebellion, 755–763, devastated the Tang; the counted population fell sharply, and the dynasty never fully recovered.
Who acts: Lushan rebellion, counted population, dynasty · What happens: devastate, count, fall, not recover · To what, where: Tang
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 (Lushan rebellion, counted population, dynasty), 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 | 4 rebellion | det |
| 2 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rebellion | det |
| 3 | Lushan | Lushan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rebellion | compound |
| 4 | rebellion | rebellion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 devastated | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 755 | punct |
| 6 | 755 | 755 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 rebellion | appos |
| 7 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 755 | punct |
| 8 | 763 | 763 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 755 | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 755 | punct |
| 10 | devastated | devastate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 fell | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tang | det |
| 12 | Tang | Tang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 devastated | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 population | det |
| 15 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 population | amod |
| 16 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 17 fell | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 recovered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 recovered | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dynasty | det |
| 22 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 recovered | nsubj |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 recovered | advmod |
| 24 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 25 recovered | advmod |
| 25 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fell | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 devastated | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devastate | participle | the Lushan rebellion | the Tang | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tang=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | count | participle | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | fall | past | the counted population | sharply property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not recover | past | the dynasty | fully property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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