China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, sentence 9
After him, Deng Xiaoping opened China to markets, and a fishing town, Shenzhen, grew into a giant city.
Who acts: Deng, fishing town · What happens: open, grow · To what, where: China, markets, giant city
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 (Deng, fishing town), 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 | _ | 2 him | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 opened | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 him | punct |
| 4 | Deng | Deng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | nsubj |
| 5 | Xiaoping | Xiaoping | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Deng | flat |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 markets | case |
| 9 | markets | market | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 opened | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 grew | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 town | det |
| 13 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 town | compound |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Shenzhen | punct |
| 16 | Shenzhen | Shenzhen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 town | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Shenzhen | punct |
| 18 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 opened | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 city | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 city | det |
| 21 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 city | amod |
| 22 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grew | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Deng | China | markets | after Leap | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent china=Patient to market=Recipient | ||
| 2 | grow | past | a fishing town | into a giant city result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into city=Result |
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:9.
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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