China: modern China, space and contested topics, sentence 18

Tibet came under the control of the People's Republic in 1950–1951; the Chinese government says Tibet has been part of China for centuries, while the Dalai Lama and many Tibetans abroad describe it as historically independent or self-governing.

Who acts: Tibet, Chinese government, Dalai Lama · What happens: come, say, be, describe, govern · To what, where: control, part · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «China: modern China, space and contested topics» 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 (Tibet, Chinese government, Dalai Lama), 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	Tibet	Tibet	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 control	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 control	det
5	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 Republic	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 People	det
8	People	People	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 Republic	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 People	case
10	Republic	Republic	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 control	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 1950	case
12	1950	1950	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 came	obl
13	–	-	PUNCT	_	14 1951	punct
14	1951	1951	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 1950	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 government	det
17	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 government	amod
18	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 says	nsubj
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
20	Tibet	Tibet	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 part	nsubj
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 part	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 part	cop
23	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 says	ccomp
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 China	case
25	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 part	nmod
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 centuries	case
27	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 part	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Lama	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	37 describe	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Lama	det
31	Dalai	Dalai	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Lama	compound
32	Lama	Lama	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 describe	nsubj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 Tibetans	cc
34	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Tibetans	amod
35	Tibetans	tibetan	PROPN	Number=Plur	32 Lama	conj
36	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	35 Tibetans	advmod
37	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 came	advcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 describe	obj
39	as	as	ADP	_	41 independent	case
40	historically	historically	ADV	_	41 independent	advmod
41	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 describe	obl
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 governing	cc
43	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 governing	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 self	punct
45	governing	govern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 independent	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Tibet		the control of the People's Republic		in 1950	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under control=Location
2	say speech: assert	present	the Chinese government					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present · perfect	Tibet	part		century	of China	tree rules
4	describe	present	the Dalai Lama and many Tibetans	part			as independent	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as independent=Attribute
5	govern	gerund	the Dalai Lama and many Tibetans not said here					vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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:059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.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, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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