China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, sentence 15

The Treaty of Nanjing of 1842 forced China to open five ports to foreign trade and to give Hong Kong Island to Britain; many British people at the time opposed the war.

Who acts: Treaty, China, many British people · What happens: force, open, give, oppose · To what, where: China, five ports, foreign trade, Hong Kong Island, Britain, 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 (Treaty, China, many British people), 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 Treaty	det
2	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 forced	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Nanjing	case
4	Nanjing	Nanjing	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Treaty	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 1842	case
6	1842	1842	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Treaty	nmod
7	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 forced	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 open	mark
10	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 forced	xcomp
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 ports	nummod
12	ports	port	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 open	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 trade	case
14	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 trade	amod
15	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 open	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 give	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 give	mark
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 open	conj
19	Hong	Hong	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Island	compound
20	Kong	Kong	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Island	compound
21	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 Britain	case
23	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 give	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 people	punct
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 people	amod
26	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 people	amod
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 opposed	nsubj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 time	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 opposed	obl
31	opposed	oppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 forced	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 war	det
33	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 opposed	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 forced	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	force	past	the Treaty of Nanjing of 1842	China			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent china=Recipient clause=Topic
2	open	to-infinitive	China not said here	five ports	foreign trade		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent port=Patient to trade=Recipient
3	give	to-infinitive	China not said here	Hong Kong Island	Britain		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent island=Theme to britain=Recipient
4	oppose	past	many British people	the war		time	vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=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:15.

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): no change. 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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