Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall, sentence 18
The Han dynasty ruled for about 400 years, and most Chinese people still call themselves the Han people.
Who acts: Han dynasty, most Chinese people · What happens: rule, call · To what, where: dynasties · 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 (Han dynasty, most Chinese people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dynasty | det |
| 2 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dynasty | compound |
| 3 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ruled | nsubj |
| 4 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 400 | advmod |
| 7 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ruled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 call | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 call | cc |
| 11 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 people | amod |
| 12 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 call | nsubj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 call | advmod |
| 15 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ruled | conj |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 call | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 18 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 people | compound |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 call | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | the Han dynasty | year | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call | present | most Chinese people | dynasties = dynasty | still | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient |
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: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): R7-rel-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.
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