China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, sentence 16
The Nanjing massacre of 1937–1938 is widely documented, and China and Japan still disagree about how to remember the war.
Who acts: China · What happens: document, disagree, remember · To what, where: Nanjing massacre, war
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 (China), 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 massacre | det |
| 2 | Nanjing | Nanjing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 massacre | compound |
| 3 | massacre | massacre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 documented | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 1937 | case |
| 5 | 1937 | 1937 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 massacre | nmod |
| 6 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 7 1938 | case |
| 7 | 1938 | 1938 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 1937 | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 documented | aux:pass |
| 9 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 10 documented | advmod |
| 10 | documented | document | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 disagree | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 disagree | cc |
| 13 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 disagree | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Japan | cc |
| 15 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 China | conj |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 disagree | advmod |
| 17 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 documented | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 remember | case |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 remember | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 remember | mark |
| 21 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 disagree | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 war | det |
| 23 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 remember | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 documented | 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 | document | present · passive | the Nanjing massacre of 1937 – 1938 | widely property | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | disagree | present | China and Japan | still | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | remember | to-infinitive | the war | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent war=Theme |
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:16.
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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