China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, sentence 4

Then Britain kept selling opium, a harmful drug, into China; when China destroyed the opium in 1839, Britain went to war, won and took Hong Kong.

Who acts: Britain, China · What happens: keep, sell, destroy, go, win, take · To what, where: opium, China, 1839, war, Hong

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, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 kept	advmod
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 went	conj
4	selling	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	opium	opium	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 selling	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drug	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 drug	det
8	harmful	harmful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 drug	amod
9	drug	drug	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opium	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 China	punct
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 China	case
12	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 selling	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 destroyed	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 destroyed	advmod
15	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 destroyed	nsubj
16	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 opium	det
18	opium	opium	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 destroyed	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 1839	case
20	1839	1839	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 destroyed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct
22	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 war	case
25	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 won	punct
27	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 went	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 took	cc
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 went	conj
30	Hong	Hong	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 took	obj
31	Kong	Kong	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Hong	flat
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	keep	past	Britain				then	tree rules
2	sell	gerund	Britain not said here	opium		China		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opium=Theme
3	destroy	past	China	the opium		1839		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opium=Patient
4	go	past	Britain			war		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location
5	win	past	Britain not said here					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	take	past	Britain not said here		Hong			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument hong=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:4.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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