China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, sentence 22

Puyi became emperor in 1908 aged two and gave up the throne in 1912; later Japan made him ruler of Manchukuo, a state in the northeast that Japan really controlled, and after prison he worked at Beijing's botanical garden.

Who acts: Puyi, Japan · What happens: become, give up, make, control, work · To what, where: emperor, 1908, throne, 1912, Puyi, northeast

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 (Puyi, 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	Puyi	Puyi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 1908	case
5	1908	1908	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 became	obl
6	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	advcl
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 became	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 gave	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 throne	det
12	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 1912	case
14	1912	1912	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 gave	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 made	advmod
17	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	obj
20	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	xcomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Manchukuo	case
22	Manchukuo	Manchukuo	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 ruler	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 state	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 state	det
25	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Manchukuo	appos
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 northeast	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 northeast	det
28	northeast	northeast	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 state	nmod
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 controlled	obj
30	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 controlled	nsubj
31	really	really	ADV	_	32 controlled	advmod
32	controlled	control	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 northeast	acl:relcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 worked	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 worked	cc
35	after	after	ADP	_	36 prison	case
36	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 worked	obl
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 worked	nsubj
38	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	conj
39	at	at	ADP	_	43 garden	case
40	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 garden	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 Beijing	case
42	botanical	botanical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 garden	amod
43	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 worked	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Puyi	emperor			in 1908 result; two obl:unmarked	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1908=Result
2	give up	past	Puyi not said here	the throne	1912			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Source
3	make	past	Japan	Puyi			late property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product
4	control	past	Japan	the northeast				vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
5	work	past	Japan			after prison	at Beijing's botanical garden	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at garden=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:22.

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, R7-rel-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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