--- title: Famine, rebellion and money troubles weakened the Ming; the rebel Li… — China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages · tree and pragmatics description: Famine, rebellion and money troubles weakened the Ming; the rebel Li Zicheng took Beijing in 1644, and then the Manchus entered and founded the Qing. Who acts: Famine, rebel Li, Manchus. 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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 (Famine, rebel Li, Manchus), 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:19 # text = Famine, rebellion and money troubles weakened the Ming; the rebel Li Zicheng took Beijing in 1644, and then the Manchus entered and founded the Qing. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Famine famine NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 3 rebellion rebellion NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 troubles trouble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 7 weakened weaken VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 12 rebel rebel NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Li Li PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 Zicheng Zicheng PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 flat _ _ 15 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 16 Beijing Beijing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 1644 1644 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Manchus Manchus PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 24 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 founded found VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Qing Qing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weaken** | past | Famine and rebellion and money and troubles | the Ming | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ming=Patient | | 2 | **take** | past | rebel Li | Beijing | | 1644 | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beijing=Value in 1644=Location | | 3 | **enter** | past | the Manchus | | | | then | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **found** | past | the Manchus *not said here* | the Qing | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent qing=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:056-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages.lesson:19`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/18/) - next →: [China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/)