--- title: The Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci, Chinese name Li Madou, lived in Chi… — China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages · tree and pragmatics description: The Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci, Chinese name Li Madou, lived in China from 1582 to 1610, mastered Chinese, made a world map in Chinese and was buried in Beijing with the emperor's permission. Who acts: Jesuit Matteo, emperor. 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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 (Jesuit Matteo, emperor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:056-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages.lesson:16 # text = The Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci, Chinese name Li Madou, lived in China from 1582 to 1610, mastered Chinese, made a world map in Chinese and was buried in Beijing with the emperor's permission. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 056-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 Italian Italian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 3 Jesuit Jesuit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Matteo Matteo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 5 Ricci Ricci PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod 8 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Li Li PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 Madou Madou PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos 11 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 12 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 1582 1582 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 obl _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 1610 1610 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 mastered master VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 Chinese Chinese PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Chinese Chinese PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Beijing Beijing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 permission permission NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | Jesuit Matteo | | | China | | from 1582 to 1610 | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in china=Location | | 2 | **master** | past | Jesuit Matteo *not said here* | Chinese | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | past | Jesuit Matteo *not said here* | a world map | | Chinese | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset map=Product | | 4 | **bury** | past · passive | Jesuit Matteo *not said here* | | | Beijing | | with the emperor's permission | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in beijing=Destination | | 5 | **permit** | | the emperor | | | | | | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:056-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages.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): R5-strong ×3, 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. 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