China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, sentence 3

Its emperors Kangxi and Qianlong ruled about sixty years each, and in 1793 Qianlong told a British envoy that China already had «all things».

Who acts: emperors, Qianlong, China · What happens: rule, tell, have · To what, where: British envoy, 1793, things · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (emperors, Qianlong, China), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 emperors	nmod:poss
2	emperors	emperor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ruled	nsubj
3	Kangxi	Kangxi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 emperors	appos
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Qianlong	cc
5	Qianlong	Qianlong	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Kangxi	conj
6	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 sixty	advmod
8	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ruled	obl:unmarked
10	each	each	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 ruled	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 1793	case
14	1793	1793	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 told	obl
15	Qianlong	Qianlong	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ruled	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 envoy	det
18	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 envoy	amod
19	envoy	envoy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
21	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 had	nsubj
22	already	already	ADV	_	23 had	advmod
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	ccomp
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 things	punct
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 things	det
26	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 had	obj
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 things	punct
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ruled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	northeast's emperors			year	each property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	Qianlong	a British envoy	1793			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent envoy=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	past	China	all things				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:3.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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