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title: Kublai Khan's fleets attacked Japan in 1274 and 1281 and failed, par… — China: the Song and the Mongols · tree and pragmatics
description: Kublai Khan's fleets attacked Japan in 1274 and 1281 and failed, partly because of storms the Japanese called «kamikaze», divine wind; the Mongols also lost at Ain Jalut in 1260 and in Vietnam. Who acts: fleets, Japanese, Mongols. A sentence of the lesson «China: the Song and the Mongols» of the his
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# China: the Song and the Mongols, sentence 12

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Kublai Khan's fleets attacked Japan in 1274 and 1281 and failed, partly because of storms the Japanese called «kamikaze», divine wind; the Mongols also lost at Ain Jalut in 1260 and in Vietnam.

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**Who acts:** fleets, Japanese, Mongols · **What happens:** attack, fail, call, lose · **To what, where:** Japan, 1274, kamikaze, Ain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Song and the Mongols» 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 (fleets, Japanese, Mongols), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:055-china-the-song-and-the-mongols.lesson:12
# text = Kublai Khan's fleets attacked Japan in 1274 and 1281 and failed, partly because of storms the Japanese called «kamikaze», divine wind; the Mongols also lost at Ain Jalut in 1260 and in Vietnam.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 055-china-the-song-and-the-mongols.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 ×1
1	Kublai	Kublai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	fleets	fleet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1274	1274	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	1281	1281	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	kamikaze	kamikaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
25	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
30	also	also	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Ain	Ain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	Jalut	Jalut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	1260	1260	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Vietnam	Vietnam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **attack** | past | Kublai's fleets | Japan |  | 1274 |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent japan=Patient |
| 2 | **fail** | past | Kublai's fleets *not said here* |  |  |  |  | because storms; partly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | participle | the Japanese | kamikaze |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent storm=Recipient |
| 4 | **lose** | past | the Mongols |  |  | Ain |  | in 1260 and Vietnam | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent at ain=Eventuality |

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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:history:055-china-the-song-and-the-mongols.lesson:12`.

**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 ×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.

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

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