China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China, sentence 20
In Chinese tradition the dragon, «long», brings rain and good fortune and is a symbol of power, while European dragons are often villains; Chinese legends have some dangerous dragons too.
Who acts: European dragons, Chinese legends · What happens: bring, be, have · To what, where: rain, Chinese tradition, symbol, villains, dangerous dragons
This is a sentence of the lesson «China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China» 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 (European dragons, Chinese legends), 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 | _ | 3 tradition | case |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tradition | amod |
| 3 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brings | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tradition | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tradition | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 brings | advmod |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brings | punct |
| 11 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brings | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fortune | cc |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fortune | amod |
| 15 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rain | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 symbol | cc |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 symbol | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 symbol | det |
| 19 | symbol | symbol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brings | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 power | case |
| 21 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 symbol | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 villains | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 villains | mark |
| 24 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 dragons | amod |
| 25 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 villains | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 villains | cop |
| 27 | often | often | ADV | _ | 28 villains | advmod |
| 28 | villains | villain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brings | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 have | punct |
| 30 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 legends | amod |
| 31 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 have | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 brings | conj |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 dragons | det |
| 34 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 dragons | amod |
| 35 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 have | obj |
| 36 | too | too | ADV | _ | 32 have | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | rain and good fortune | Chinese tradition | long property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rain=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | a symbol | of power | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | European dragons | villains | often property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | present | Chinese legends | some dangerous dragons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient |
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:060-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china.lesson:20.
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): R3-conj-first ×2, R6-punct-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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