Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall, sentence 12
In 221 BC the king of Qin conquered all the warring kingdoms and called himself Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor; the English name China may come from Qin.
Who acts: king, English name · What happens: conquer, war, call, come · To what, where: warring kingdoms, 221, king, Qin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall» 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 (king, English name), 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 | _ | 2 221 | case |
| 2 | 221 | 221 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 conquered | obl |
| 3 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 221 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 conquered | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Qin | case |
| 7 | Qin | Qin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 king | nmod |
| 8 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 kingdoms | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kingdoms | det |
| 11 | warring | war | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 kingdoms | amod |
| 12 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 conquered | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 called | cc |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 conquered | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 called | obj |
| 16 | Qin | Qin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 17 | Shi | Shi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Qin | flat |
| 18 | Huang | Huang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Qin | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Emperor | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Emperor | det |
| 21 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 Emperor | amod |
| 22 | Emperor | emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Qin | appos |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 come | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 name | det |
| 25 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 name | amod |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 come | nsubj |
| 27 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 name | appos |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 come | aux |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 conquered | parataxis |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Qin | case |
| 31 | Qin | Qin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 come | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 conquered | 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 | conquer | past | the king of Qin | all warring kingdoms | 221 BC | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient | |||
| 2 | war | gerund | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | call | past | the king of Qin not said here | king | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | come | may | the English name | Qin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from qin=Initial_Location |
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:009-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall.lesson:12.
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): R8-pos-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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