Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall, sentence 9
China was ruled by dynasties, families whose rule passed from parent to child, such as the Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang, Song and Ming.
Who acts: dynasties, rule · What happens: rule, pass · To what, where: China, child
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, rule), 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:pass |
| 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 | appos |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 rule | nmod:poss |
| 9 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 families | acl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 parent | case |
| 12 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 child | case |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Shang | punct |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 Shang | case |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 such | fixed |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Shang | det |
| 19 | Shang | Shang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dynasties | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Zhou | punct |
| 21 | Zhou | Zhou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Shang | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Qin | punct |
| 23 | Qin | Qin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Shang | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Han | punct |
| 25 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Shang | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Tang | punct |
| 27 | Tang | Tang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Shang | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Song | punct |
| 29 | Song | Song | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Shang | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Ming | cc |
| 31 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Shang | conj |
| 32 | . | . | 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 such the Shang and Zhou and Qin and Han and Tang and Song and Ming | China | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | rule | child | from parent | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from parent=Initial_Location to child=Destination |
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:9.
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 ×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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