Vietnam, sentence 36
From Wikipedia, «Vietnam», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Gia Long asked the Jiaqing Emperor of the Qing dynasty to confer on him the title 'King of Nam Việt / Nanyue' (南越 in Chinese character) after seizing power in Annam.
Who acts: Gia · What happens: ask, confer, seize · To what, where: Jiaqing Emperor, title, power, Annam
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vietnam». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gia | Gia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | Long | Long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Gia | flat |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Emperor | det |
| 5 | Jiaqing | Jiaqing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Emperor | compound |
| 6 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | iobj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 dynasty | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dynasty | det |
| 9 | Qing | Qing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 dynasty | compound |
| 10 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Emperor | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 confer | mark |
| 12 | confer | confer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | xcomp |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 confer | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 title | det |
| 16 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 confer | obj |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 King | punct |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 title | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Nam | case |
| 20 | Nam | Nam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 King | nmod |
| 21 | Việt | Việt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 King | flat |
| 22 | / | / | SYM | _ | 23 Nanyue | cc |
| 23 | Nanyue | Nanyue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 King | conj |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 King | punct |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 南越 | punct |
| 26 | 南越 | 南越 | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 title | appos |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 character | case |
| 28 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 character | amod |
| 29 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 南越 | nmod |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 南越 | punct |
| 31 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 32 seizing | mark |
| 32 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 confer | advcl |
| 33 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 seizing | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Annam | case |
| 35 | Annam | Annam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 seizing | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Gia | the Jiaqing Emperor of the Qing dynasty | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | confer not said to happen | to-infinitive | Gia not said here | the title | on Emperor | tree rules | |||
| 3 | seize | gerund | Gia not said here | power | Annam | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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.
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