Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall, sentence 2
China was ruled by dynasties, families passing power from parent to child, like a football club owned by one family for generations.
Who acts: dynasties, families · What happens: rule, pass, own · To what, where: China, power, child, football club
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 (dynasties, families), 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 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ruled | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ruled | aux:pass |
| 3 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 dynasties | case |
| 5 | dynasties | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ruled | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 families | punct |
| 7 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dynasties | conj |
| 8 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 families | acl |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passing | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 parent | case |
| 11 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passing | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 child | case |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 club | punct |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 club | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 club | det |
| 17 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 club | compound |
| 18 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passing | obl |
| 19 | owned | own | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 club | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 family | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 family | nummod |
| 22 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 owned | obl:agent |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 generations | case |
| 24 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 owned | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ruled | 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 | rule | past · passive | dynasties and families | China | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | pass | gerund | families not said here | power | child | from parent; like a football club | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent power=Theme from parent=Initial_Location to child=Destination | ||
| 3 | own | participle | a football club not said here | for generations | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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:2.
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. 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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