China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, sentence 20
In the war of 1894–1895 Japan, which had modernised fast, defeated Qing China and took Taiwan.
Who acts: Japan · What happens: modernise, defeat, take · To what, where: Qing, war, Taiwan
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 (Japan), 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 war | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 war | det |
| 3 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 defeated | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 1895 | case |
| 5 | 1894 | 1894 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 war | nmod |
| 6 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 7 1895 | flat |
| 7 | 1895 | 1895 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 war | nmod |
| 8 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 defeated | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Japan | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 modernised | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 modernised | aux |
| 12 | modernised | modernise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 Japan | acl:relcl |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 modernised | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 defeated | punct |
| 15 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Qing | Qing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 defeated | obj |
| 17 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Qing | flat |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 defeated | conj |
| 20 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 defeated | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | modernise | past · perfect | Japan | fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | defeat | past | Japan | Qing | the war 1894 of – 1895 | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | past | Japan not said here | Taiwan | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument taiwan=Destination |
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:20.
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, R6-punct-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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