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title: The Forbidden City in Beijing was the palace of Chinese emperors fro… — The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia · tree and pragmatics
description: The Forbidden City in Beijing was the palace of Chinese emperors from 1420 until 1912, and it is now a museum. Who acts: Forbidden City, City. A sentence of the lesson «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia, sentence 14

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The Forbidden City in Beijing was the palace of Chinese emperors from 1420 until 1912, and it is now a museum.

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**Who acts:** Forbidden City, City · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** palace, museum

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» of the geography 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 (Forbidden City, City), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:035-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia.lesson:14
# text = The Forbidden City in Beijing was the palace of Chinese emperors from 1420 until 1912, and it is now a museum.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 035-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Forbidden	Forbidden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	emperors	emperor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1420	1420	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
14	until	until	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1912	1912	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Forbidden City in Beijing | the palace and a museum |  |  | until 1912 | of Chinese emperors from 1420 | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | City | a museum |  |  | now |  | tree rules |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:geography:035-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia.lesson:14`.

**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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