China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages, sentence 8
The Ming dynasty, 1368–1644, moved the capital to Beijing, where the Forbidden City was built from 1406 to 1420 by many thousands of workers.
Who acts: Ming dynasty, many thousands · What happens: move, build · To what, where: capital, Beijing, Forbidden City, 1406
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 (Ming dynasty, many thousands), 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 dynasty | det |
| 2 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dynasty | compound |
| 3 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 1368 | punct |
| 5 | 1368 | 1368 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 dynasty | appos |
| 6 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 1644 | punct |
| 7 | 1644 | 1644 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 1368 | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dynasty | punct |
| 9 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 capital | det |
| 11 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 moved | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Beijing | case |
| 13 | Beijing | Beijing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 moved | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 built | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 built | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 City | det |
| 17 | Forbidden | Forbidden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 City | compound |
| 18 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 built | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 built | aux:pass |
| 20 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Beijing | acl:relcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 1406 | case |
| 22 | 1406 | 1406 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 built | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 1420 | case |
| 24 | 1420 | 1420 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 1406 | nmod |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 thousands | case |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 thousands | amod |
| 27 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 built | obl:agent |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 workers | case |
| 29 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 thousands | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 moved | 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 | move | past | the Ming dynasty | the capital | Beijing | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent capital=Theme to beijing=Result | |||
| 2 | build | past · passive | many thousands of workers | the Forbidden City | 1406 to 1420 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset subject=Product from 1406=Material |
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:8.
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 ×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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