China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, sentence 18
After the civil war, Mao Zedong declared the People's Republic of China in Beijing on 1 October 1949, and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan.
Who acts: Mao, Nationalist government · What happens: declare, retreat · To what, where: Republic, Beijing, Taiwan
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 (Mao, Nationalist government), 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 | _ | 4 war | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 war | det |
| 3 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 war | amod |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 declared | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 war | punct |
| 6 | Mao | Mao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 declared | nsubj |
| 7 | Zedong | Zedong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mao | flat |
| 8 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 People | det |
| 10 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 Republic | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 People | case |
| 12 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 declared | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 China | case |
| 14 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Republic | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Beijing | case |
| 16 | Beijing | Beijing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 declared | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 1 | case |
| 18 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 declared | obl |
| 19 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 1949 | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | 1949 | 1949 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 1 | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 retreated | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 retreated | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 government | det |
| 24 | Nationalist | nationalist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 government | amod |
| 25 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 retreated | nsubj |
| 26 | retreated | retreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 declared | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Taiwan | case |
| 28 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 retreated | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | Mao | the People's Republic of China | Beijing | after the civil war | on 1 | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republic=Attribute | |
| 2 | retreat | past | the Nationalist government | Taiwan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to taiwan=Initial_Location |
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:18.
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): R5-strong ×1. 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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