--- title: The Yuan ended when floods, famine and rebellions shook it, and a fo… — China: the Song and the Mongols · tree and pragmatics description: The Yuan ended when floods, famine and rebellions shook it, and a former peasant and monk, Zhu Yuanzhang, took Beijing in 1368 and became the first Ming emperor. Who acts: Yuan, floods, former peasant. 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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 (Yuan, floods, former peasant), 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:6 # text = The Yuan ended when floods, famine and rebellions shook it, and a former peasant and monk, Zhu Yuanzhang, took Beijing in 1368 and became the first Ming emperor. # 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): R5-strong ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Yuan Yuan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 5 floods flood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 famine famine NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 rebellions rebellion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 10 shook shook VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det 15 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:amod 16 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:amod 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 monk monk NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nsubj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Zhu Zhu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 21 Yuanzhang Yuanzhang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 23 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 Beijing Beijing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 1368 1368 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 32 amod _ _ 31 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 xcomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **end** | past | the Yuan | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **shook** | past | floods and famine and rebellions | Yuan | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | past | a former peasant and monk | Beijing | | 1368 | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beijing=Value in 1368=Location | | 4 | **become** | past | a former peasant and monk *not said here* | the first Ming emperor | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:055-china-the-song-and-the-mongols.lesson:6`. **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): R5-strong ×4. **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/). - ← previous: [China: the Song and the Mongols, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols/5/) - next →: [China: the Song and the Mongols, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols/)