--- title: The Zhou dynasty, 1046–256 BC, taught the Mandate of Heaven: a ruler… — China: five thousand years and the oldest dynast… · tree and pragmatics description: The Zhou dynasty, 1046–256 BC, taught the Mandate of Heaven: a ruler governs while he rules justly, and disasters and revolts show he has lost the right; rebels could use the same idea. Who acts: Zhou dynasty, ruler, dynasty, disasters. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zhou dynasty, ruler, dynasty, disasters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:051-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties.lesson:14 # text = The Zhou dynasty, 1046–256 BC, taught the Mandate of Heaven: a ruler governs while he rules justly, and disasters and revolts show he has lost the right; rebels could use the same idea. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 051-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Zhou Zhou PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 dynasty dynasty NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 1046 1046 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 appos _ _ 6 – - PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 7 256 256 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 flat _ _ 8 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:unmarked _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Mandate mandate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Heaven Heaven PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 governs govern VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 rules rule VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 22 justly justly ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 disasters disaster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 revolts revolt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 ccomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 35 rebels rebel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 36 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | the Zhou dynasty | | the Mandate of Heaven | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mandate=Recipient | | 2 | **govern** | present | a ruler | | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **rule** | present | dynasty | | | | | justly *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **show** | present | disasters and revolts | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **lose** | present · perfect | dynasty | the right | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Eventuality | | 6 | **use** | could | rebels | the same idea | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | 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](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:history:051-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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