--- title: The Ming dynasty, 1368–1644, moved the capital to Beijing, where the… — China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages · tree and pragmatics description: The Ming dynasty, 1368–1644, moved the capital to Beijing, where the Forbidden City was built from 1406 to 1420 by many thousands of workers. Who acts: Ming dynasty, many thousands. 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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 (Ming dynasty, many thousands), 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:8 # text = The Ming dynasty, 1368–1644, moved the capital to Beijing, where the Forbidden City was built from 1406 to 1420 by many thousands of workers. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 dynasty dynasty NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 1368 1368 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 appos _ _ 6 – - PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 1644 1644 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Beijing Beijing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 20 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 Forbidden Forbidden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl:relcl _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 1406 1406 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 1420 1420 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nmod _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl:agent _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **move** | past | the Ming dynasty | the capital | Beijing | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent capital=Theme to beijing=Result | | 2 | **build** | past · passive | many thousands of workers | the Forbidden City | | 1406 to 1420 | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset subject=Product from 1406=Material | 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:8`. **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. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/7/) - next →: [China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/)