China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, sentence 11
The 1911 Revolution began with an uprising in Wuchang on 10 October 1911; the Qing fell, and the Republic of China was declared in 1912 with Sun Yat-sen as provisional president.
Who acts: 1911 Revolution, Qing · What happens: begin, fall, declare · To what, where: 10, Republic, 1912
This is a sentence of the lesson «China: 1911, 1949 and Mao» 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 (1911 Revolution, Qing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Revolution | det |
| 2 | 1911 | 1911 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Revolution | compound |
| 3 | Revolution | Revolution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 uprising | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 uprising | det |
| 7 | uprising | uprising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Wuchang | case |
| 9 | Wuchang | Wuchang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 uprising | nmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 10 | case |
| 11 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 began | obl |
| 12 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 10 | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | 1911 | 1911 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 10 | flat |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Qing | det |
| 16 | Qing | Qing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 declared | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 declared | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Republic | det |
| 21 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 declared | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 China | case |
| 23 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Republic | nmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 declared | aux:pass |
| 25 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 began | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 1912 | case |
| 27 | 1912 | 1912 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 declared | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 sen | case |
| 29 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 sen | compound |
| 30 | Yat | Yat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Sun | flat |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 sen | punct |
| 32 | sen | sen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 declared | obl |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 president | case |
| 34 | provisional | provisional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 president | amod |
| 35 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sen | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the 1911 Revolution | 10 October | with a uprising in Wuchang | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with uprising=Subeventuality | |||
| 2 | fall | past | the Qing | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past · passive | the Republic of China | 1912 | with Sun sen as provisional president | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
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:058-china-1911-1949-and-mao.lesson:11.
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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