China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, sentence 25
In 1971 an American table-tennis team visited China, «ping-pong diplomacy»; in 1972 President Richard Nixon visited Beijing.
Who acts: American tennis team, Richard · What happens: visit · To what, where: China, 1971, Beijing, 1972
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 (American tennis team, Richard), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1971 | case |
| 2 | 1971 | 1971 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 visited | obl |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 team | det |
| 4 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 team | amod |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tennis | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 table | punct |
| 7 | tennis | tennis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 team | compound |
| 8 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 visited | nsubj |
| 9 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 visited | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 China | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 diplomacy | punct |
| 13 | ping | ping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pong | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 pong | punct |
| 15 | pong | pong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 diplomacy | compound |
| 16 | diplomacy | diplomacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 China | appos |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 diplomacy | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 visited | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 1972 | case |
| 20 | 1972 | 1972 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 visited | obl |
| 21 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Richard | nmod:desc |
| 22 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 visited | nsubj |
| 23 | Nixon | Nixon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Richard | flat |
| 24 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 visited | parataxis |
| 25 | Beijing | Beijing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 visited | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | a American tennis team | China | 1971 | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent china=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | visit | past | Richard President | Beijing | 1972 | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beijing=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:25.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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