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title: From the 1630s Japan's Tokugawa rulers strictly limited contact with… — The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia · tree and pragmatics
description: From the 1630s Japan's Tokugawa rulers strictly limited contact with foreigners, allowing only Dutch and Chinese traders at Nagasaki, until the 1850s. Who acts: Tokugawa rulers. A sentence of the lesson «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» of the geography course of Mova's primary school 
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# The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia, sentence 16

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From the 1630s Japan's Tokugawa rulers strictly limited contact with foreigners, allowing only Dutch and Chinese traders at Nagasaki, until the 1850s.

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**Who acts:** Tokugawa rulers · **What happens:** limit, allow · **To what, where:** contact, 1630s, Dutch traders, Nagasaki

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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 (Tokugawa rulers), 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:16
# text = From the 1630s Japan's Tokugawa rulers strictly limited contact with foreigners, allowing only Dutch and Chinese traders at Nagasaki, until the 1850s.
# 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	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1630s	1630	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
4	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	Tokugawa	Tokugawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	strictly	strictly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	limited	limit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	foreigners	foreigner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	allowing	allow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Nagasaki	Nagasaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	until	until	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	1850s	1850	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **limit** | past | Japan's Tokugawa rulers | contact |  | the 1630s |  | with foreigners; strictly *property* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer contact=Patient |
| 2 | **allow** | gerund | Japan's Tokugawa rulers *not said here* | Dutch traders |  | Nagasaki | until the 1850s |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trader=Beneficiary |

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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:16`.

**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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