China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, sentence 18
Britain took Hong Kong Island in 1842 and Kowloon in 1860 and rented the New Territories in 1898 for 99 years; Hong Kong returned to China in 1997 under «one country, two systems», which promised it its own laws and way of life.
Who acts: Britain, Hong, two systems · What happens: take, rent, return, promise · To what, where: Hong Kong Island, 1842, New Territories, 1898, China, 1997
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 (Britain, Hong, two systems), 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 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Hong | Hong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Island | compound |
| 4 | Kong | Kong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Island | compound |
| 5 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1842 | case |
| 7 | 1842 | 1842 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Kowloon | cc |
| 9 | Kowloon | Kowloon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Island | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1860 | case |
| 11 | 1860 | 1860 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 Kowloon | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rented | cc |
| 13 | rented | rent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Territories | det |
| 15 | New | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Territories | amod |
| 16 | Territories | territory | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 rented | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 1898 | case |
| 18 | 1898 | 1898 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 rented | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 years | case |
| 20 | 99 | 99 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 years | nummod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rented | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 returned | punct |
| 23 | Hong | Hong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 returned | nsubj |
| 24 | Kong | Kong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Hong | flat |
| 25 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 China | case |
| 27 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 returned | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 1997 | case |
| 29 | 1997 | 1997 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 returned | obl |
| 30 | under | under | ADP | _ | 33 country | case |
| 31 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 33 country | punct |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 country | nummod |
| 33 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 returned | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 systems | punct |
| 35 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 systems | nummod |
| 36 | systems | system | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 country | appos |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 40 promised | punct |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 promised | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 promised | nsubj |
| 40 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 systems | acl:relcl |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 promised | obj |
| 42 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 laws | nmod:poss |
| 43 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 laws | amod |
| 44 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 promised | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 way | cc |
| 46 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 laws | conj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 life | case |
| 48 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 way | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | 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 | take | past | Britain | Hong Kong Island and Kowloon | 1842 | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent island=Value in 1842=Location | |||
| 2 | rent | past | Britain not said here | the New Territories | 1898 | year | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Theme | ||
| 3 | return | past | Hong | China | 1997 | under one country | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to china=Result | ||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | past | two systems | Treaty's own laws and way of life | Treaty | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent it=Goal law=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:057-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars.lesson:18.
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, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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