China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, sentence 2

The wise answer: the Manchus from the northeast founded it and kept their own customs, but they ruled through Chinese institutions and the empire became one of China's greatest.

Who acts: wise answer, Manchus, empire · What happens: found, keep, rule, become · To what, where: northeast, own customs, Chinese institutions

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 (wise answer, Manchus, empire), 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	3 answer	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 answer	amod
3	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 founded	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Manchus	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Manchus	det
6	Manchus	Manchus	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 founded	nsubj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 northeast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 northeast	det
9	northeast	northeast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Manchus	nmod
10	founded	found	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 founded	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kept	cc
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 founded	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 customs	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 customs	amod
16	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kept	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ruled	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 ruled	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ruled	nsubj
20	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 founded	conj
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 institutions	case
22	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 institutions	amod
23	institutions	institution	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ruled	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 became	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 empire	det
26	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 became	nsubj
27	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ruled	conj
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 became	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 greatest	case
30	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 greatest	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 China	case
32	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 one	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 founded	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	found	past	the wise answer	northeast		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	keep	past	the wise answer not said here	Manchus's own customs		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Theme
3	rule	past	Manchus		Chinese institutions	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	become	past	the empire			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:2.

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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