China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages, sentence 16
The Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci, Chinese name Li Madou, lived in China from 1582 to 1610, mastered Chinese, made a world map in Chinese and was buried in Beijing with the emperor's permission.
Who acts: Jesuit Matteo, emperor · What happens: live, master, make, bury, permit · To what, where: China, Chinese, world map, Beijing
This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages» 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 (Jesuit Matteo, emperor), 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 Jesuit | det |
| 2 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Jesuit | amod |
| 3 | Jesuit | Jesuit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Matteo | compound |
| 4 | Matteo | Matteo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | Ricci | Ricci | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Matteo | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Li | punct |
| 7 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 name | amod |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Li | compound |
| 9 | Li | Li | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Matteo | appos |
| 10 | Madou | Madou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Li | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Matteo | punct |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 China | case |
| 14 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 1582 | case |
| 16 | 1582 | 1582 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 lived | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 1610 | case |
| 18 | 1610 | 1610 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 1582 | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mastered | punct |
| 20 | mastered | master | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lived | conj |
| 21 | Chinese | Chinese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 mastered | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lived | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 map | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 map | compound |
| 26 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Chinese | case |
| 28 | Chinese | Chinese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 buried | cc |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 buried | aux:pass |
| 31 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 made | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Beijing | case |
| 33 | Beijing | Beijing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 buried | obl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 permission | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 emperor | det |
| 36 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 permission | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 emperor | case |
| 38 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 buried | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Jesuit Matteo | China | from 1582 to 1610 | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in china=Location | |||
| 2 | master | past | Jesuit Matteo not said here | Chinese | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Jesuit Matteo not said here | a world map | Chinese | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset map=Product | |||
| 4 | bury | past · passive | Jesuit Matteo not said here | Beijing | with the emperor's permission | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in beijing=Destination | |||
| 5 | permit | the emperor | nom permission «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:056-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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