China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, sentence 12
Sun was abroad, in America, when the uprising began.
Who acts: Sun, uprising · What happens: be, begin · To what, where: America
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 (Sun, uprising), 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 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 America | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 America | case |
| 6 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 began | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 uprising | det |
| 10 | uprising | uprising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | Sun | America | abroad property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in america=Location | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the uprising | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:12.
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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