China: the Song and the Mongols, sentence 4

Mei says «China absorbed the Mongols», the teacher says «the Mongols ruled China»: the Yuan was a Mongol dynasty ruling through a Chinese-style state.

Who acts: Mei, China, teacher, Mongols, Yuan, Mongol dynasty · What happens: say, absorb, rule, be · To what, where: Mongols, China, Mongol dynasty, style state · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Song and the Mongols» 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 (Mei, China, teacher, Mongols), 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	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 absorbed	punct
4	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 absorbed	nsubj
5	absorbed	absorb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mongols	det
7	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 absorbed	obj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 absorbed	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 teacher	det
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	parataxis
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 ruled	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Mongols	det
15	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 ruled	nsubj
16	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 says	ccomp
17	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ruled	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 ruled	punct
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Yuan	det
21	Yuan	Yuan	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 dynasty	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dynasty	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 dynasty	det
24	Mongol	mongol	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dynasty	compound
25	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	conj
26	ruling	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 dynasty	acl
27	through	through	ADP	_	32 state	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 state	det
29	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 style	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Chinese	punct
31	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 state	compound
32	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ruling	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mei			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	absorb in a quote	past	China	the Mongols		vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal mongol=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	the teacher			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	rule in a quote	past	the Mongols	China		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent china=Result
5	is a	past	the Yuan	a Mongol dynasty		tree rules
6	rule	gerund	a Mongol dynasty not said here		a style state	vn dub-29.3.2 «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:055-china-the-song-and-the-mongols.lesson:4.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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