China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, sentence 15

Japan occupied Manchuria in 1931 and began full war on China in 1937; millions of Chinese died before Japan's defeat in 1945.

Who acts: Japan, millions · What happens: occupy, begin, die, defeat · To what, where: Manchuria, 1931, full war, China

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 (Japan, millions), 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	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 occupied	nsubj
2	occupied	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Manchuria	Manchuria	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 occupied	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 1931	case
5	1931	1931	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 occupied	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 occupied	conj
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 war	amod
9	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 China	case
11	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 began	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 1937	case
13	1937	1937	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 began	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 occupied	punct
15	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 died	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Chinese	case
17	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 millions	nmod
18	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 occupied	parataxis
19	before	before	ADP	_	22 defeat	case
20	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 defeat	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Japan	case
22	defeat	defeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 died	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 1945	case
24	1945	1945	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 died	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 occupied	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occupy	past	Japan	Manchuria	1931			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus manchuria=Experiencer
2	begin	past	Japan not said here	full war	China		in 1937	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality
3	die	past	millions of Chinese			before Japan's defeat	in 1945	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1945=Attribute
4	defeat		Japan					nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=agent

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:15.

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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