China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, sentence 17

Both the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists fought Japan, sometimes while also fighting each other; the Nationalists fought most of the big battles.

Who acts: Nationalist government, Nationalists · What happens: fight · To what, where: Japan, each, most

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 (Nationalist government, Nationalists), 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	Both	both	CCONJ	_	4 government	cc:preconj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 government	det
3	Nationalist	nationalist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 government	amod
4	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fought	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Chiang	case
6	Chiang	Chiang	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 government	nmod
7	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Chiang	flat
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 shek	punct
9	shek	shek	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Chiang	appos
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Communists	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Communists	det
12	Communists	Communist	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 Chiang	conj
13	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 fought	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fought	punct
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 fought	advmod
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 fighting	mark
18	also	also	ADV	_	19 fighting	advmod
19	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 fought	advcl
20	each	each	PRON	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	19 fighting	obj
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 each	fixed
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 fighting	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Nationalists	det
24	Nationalists	nationalist	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 fought	nsubj
25	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fought	parataxis
26	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 fought	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 battles	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 battles	det
29	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 battles	amod
30	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 most	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 fought	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fight	past	the Nationalist government of Chiang and the Communists	Japan		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent japan=Co-Agent
2	fight	gerund	the Nationalists not said here	each		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent
3	fight	past	the Nationalists	most of the big battles	sometimes property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Co-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:17.

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 ×1, R8-pos-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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