Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall, sentence 3

People believed Heaven gave a good ruler the right to rule, and took it away when floods, famine and rebellion came.

Who acts: People, Heaven, floods · What happens: believe, give, rule, take away, come · To what, where: right, good ruler · 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 (People, Heaven, floods), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 believed	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ruler	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ruler	amod
7	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	iobj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 right	det
9	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 rule	mark
11	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 right	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 took	cc
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 took	obj
16	away	away	ADV	_	14 took	advmod
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 came	advmod
18	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 came	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 famine	punct
20	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 floods	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 rebellion	cc
22	rebellion	rebellion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 famine	conj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 took	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 believed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	believe	past	People				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	give	past	Heaven	the right	a good ruler		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ruler=Recipient right=Theme
3	rule	to-infinitive	Heaven not said here	the right not said here			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	take away	past	Heaven not said here	right		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	come	past	floods and famine and rebellion				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:3.

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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