China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, sentence 12
In 1793 Lord Macartney came from Britain asking for more trade and an embassy in Beijing; the Qianlong Emperor answered that China possessed «all things» and had no need of British goods.
Who acts: Lord, Qianlong Emperor, China · What happens: come, ask, answer, possess, have, need · To what, where: 1793, things, need, British goods · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Qing and the Opium Wars» 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 (Lord, Qianlong Emperor, China), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1793 | case |
| 2 | 1793 | 1793 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 came | obl |
| 3 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 4 | Macartney | Macartney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lord | flat |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Britain | case |
| 7 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 trade | case |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 trade | amod |
| 11 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asking | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 embassy | cc |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 embassy | det |
| 14 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trade | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Beijing | case |
| 16 | Beijing | Beijing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 embassy | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 answered | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Emperor | det |
| 19 | Qianlong | Qianlong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Emperor | compound |
| 20 | Emperor | emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 answered | nsubj |
| 21 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 possessed | mark |
| 23 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 possessed | nsubj |
| 24 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 answered | ccomp |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 27 things | punct |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 things | det |
| 27 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 possessed | obj |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 things | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 had | cc |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 possessed | conj |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 need | det |
| 32 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 goods | case |
| 34 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 goods | amod |
| 35 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 32 need | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Lord | 1793 | from Britain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from britain=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Lord not said here | for more trade and a embassy in Beijing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the Qianlong Emperor | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | possess | past | China | all things | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | past | China not said here | no need of British goods | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | ||||
| 6 | need | British goods | nom need «state transitive»: of=patient |
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:057-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars.lesson:12.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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