When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides, sentence 11
Japan avoided European rule and built its own empire, ruling Taiwan from 1895 and Korea from 1910 until 1945; in some years Koreans were pushed to use Japanese names and language.
Who acts: Japan · What happens: avoid, build, rule, push, use · To what, where: European rule, own empire, Taiwan, 1895, Koreans, Japanese names
This is a sentence of the lesson «When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides» 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 (Japan), 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 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 avoided | nsubj |
| 2 | avoided | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rule | amod |
| 4 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 avoided | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 built | cc |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 avoided | conj |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 empire | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 empire | amod |
| 9 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 built | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ruling | punct |
| 11 | ruling | rule | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 built | advcl |
| 12 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ruling | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 1895 | case |
| 14 | 1895 | 1895 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 ruling | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Korea | cc |
| 16 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 1895 | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 1910 | case |
| 18 | 1910 | 1910 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 1895 | nmod |
| 19 | until | until | ADP | _ | 20 1945 | case |
| 20 | 1945 | 1945 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 1895 | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 pushed | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 years | case |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 years | det |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 pushed | obl |
| 25 | Koreans | korean | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 pushed | aux:pass |
| 27 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 avoided | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 use | mark |
| 29 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 pushed | xcomp |
| 30 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 names | amod |
| 31 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 use | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 language | cc |
| 33 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 names | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 avoided | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avoid | past | Japan | European rule | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent rule=Location | ||||
| 2 | build | past | Japan not said here | rule's own empire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset empire=Product | ||||
| 3 | rule | gerund | Japan not said here | Taiwan | 1895 from 1910 until 1945 and Korea | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent taiwan=Result | |||
| 4 | push | past · passive | Koreans | year | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | use | to-infinitive | Japanese names and language | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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:076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.lesson:11.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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