China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, sentence 14

After 1916 China was divided among warlords; on 4 May 1919 students in Beijing protested because the peace treaty after the First World War gave Germany's old rights in the Shandong region to Japan instead of back to China, and the May Fourth movement called for science, democracy and writing in everyday language.

Who acts: 4 May students, peace treaty · What happens: divide, protest, give, call · To what, where: China, old rights, Japan, Shandong region, May Fourth movement · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (4 May students, peace treaty), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 1916	case
2	1916	1916	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 divided	obl
3	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 divided	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 divided	aux:pass
5	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	among	among	ADP	_	7 warlords	case
7	warlords	warlord	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 divided	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 protested	punct
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 students	case
10	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 students	nummod
11	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 students	compound
12	1919	1919	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 May	nmod:unmarked
13	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 protested	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Beijing	case
15	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 students	nmod
16	protested	protest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 divided	parataxis
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 gave	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 treaty	det
19	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 treaty	compound
20	treaty	treaty	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	nsubj
21	after	after	ADP	_	25 War	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 War	det
23	First	First	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 World	amod
24	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 War	compound
25	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 treaty	nmod
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 protested	advcl
27	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 rights	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 Germany	case
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 rights	amod
30	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 gave	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 region	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 region	det
33	Shandong	Shandong	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 region	compound
34	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rights	nmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 Japan	case
36	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obl
37	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	39 back	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	37 instead	fixed
39	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obl
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 China	case
41	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 back	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 movement	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 movement	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 movement	det
45	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 movement	compound
46	Fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 movement	compound
47	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 divided	conj
48	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 movement	acl
49	for	for	ADP	_	50 science	case
50	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 called	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 democracy	punct
52	democracy	democracy	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 science	conj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 writing	cc
54	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 science	conj
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 language	case
56	everyday	everyday	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 language	amod
57	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 writing	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 divided	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	divide	past · passive		China			after 1916	among warlords	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	protest speech: disagree	past	4 May students in Beijing						vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	past	the peace treaty after the World War	Germany's old rights	Japan	the Shandong region		instead back	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent right=Theme to japan=Recipient
4	call	participle		the May Fourth movement not said here				for science and democracy and writing in everyday language	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for science=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:058-china-1911-1949-and-mao.lesson:14.

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): 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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