China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages, sentence 9

The legend says the Forbidden City has 9,999 rooms because only Heaven can have 10,000; surveys count about 8,700.

Who acts: legend, Forbidden City, Heaven, surveys · What happens: say, have, count · To what, where: 9,999 rooms, 10,000, 8,700 · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (legend, Forbidden City, Heaven, surveys), 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	2 legend	det
2	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 City	det
5	Forbidden	Forbidden	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 City	compound
6	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	9,999	9,999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 rooms	nummod
9	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 has	obj
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 have	mark
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 Heaven	advmod
12	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 have	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 has	advcl
15	10,000	10,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 have	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 count	punct
17	surveys	survey	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 count	nsubj
18	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	parataxis
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 8,700	advmod
20	8,700	8,700	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 count	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the legend		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	the Forbidden City	9,999 rooms	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
3	have	can	Heaven	10,000	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 10,000=Patient
4	count	present	surveys	8,700	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 8,700=Theme

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:9.

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, 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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