China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, sentence 7
Even in Britain at the time, many people, like the young William Gladstone, called the war shameful.
Who acts: many people · What happens: call · To what, where: war, Britain · 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 (many people), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 Britain | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Britain | case |
| 3 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 called | obl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Britain | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 people | punct |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 called | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 William | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 William | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 William | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 William | amod |
| 14 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 people | appos |
| 15 | Gladstone | Gladstone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 William | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Britain | punct |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 war | det |
| 19 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | obj |
| 20 | shameful | shameful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 called | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | many people | the war | Britain at the time | shameful property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent war=Recipient |
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:7.
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): no change. 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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