China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, sentence 14

In 1839 Commissioner Lin Zexu had more than a thousand tonnes of British opium destroyed; Britain went to war, the First Opium War of 1839–1842, and won.

Who acts: Lin, Britain · What happens: have, destroy, go, win · To what, where: 1839, Commissioner, British opium, war

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 (Lin, Britain), 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	_	3 Commissioner	case
2	1839	1839	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 had	obl
3	Commissioner	commissioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
4	Lin	Lin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
5	Zexu	Zexu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Lin	flat
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	10 thousand	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 more	fixed
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thousand	det
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 tonnes	nummod
11	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 opium	case
13	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 opium	amod
14	opium	opium	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tonnes	nmod
15	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 opium	acl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
17	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 war	case
20	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 War	det
23	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 War	amod
24	Opium	Opium	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 War	compound
25	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 war	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 1839	case
27	1839	1839	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 War	nmod
28	–	–	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	29 1842	case
29	1842	1842	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 1839	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 won	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 won	cc
32	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Lin	1839	Commissioner	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tonne=Patient
2	destroy	participle		British opium not said here		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	Britain		war	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location
4	win	past	Britain not said here			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: 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:057-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars.lesson:14.

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, 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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