--- title: In 1839 Commissioner Lin Zexu had more than a thousand tonnes of Bri… — China: the Qing and the Opium Wars · tree and pragmatics description: In 1839 Commissioner Lin Zexu had more than a thousand tonnes of British opium destroyed; Britain went to war, the First Opium War of 1839–1842, and won. Who acts: Lin, Britain. 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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 (Lin, Britain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:057-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars.lesson:14 # text = In 1839 Commissioner Lin Zexu had more than a thousand tonnes of British opium destroyed; Britain went to war, the First Opium War of 1839–1842, and won. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 057-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 1839 1839 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nummod 3 Commissioner commissioner NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 Lin Lin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 Zexu Zexu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 10 advmod _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 tonnes tonne NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 opium opium NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 destroyed destroy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 First first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 25 amod _ _ 24 Opium Opium PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 1839 1839 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nmod _ _ 28 – – SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 29 case _ _ 29 1842 1842 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Lin | 1839 | | Commissioner | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tonne=Patient | | 2 | **destroy** | participle | | British opium *not said here* | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** | past | Britain | | | war | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **win** | past | Britain *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=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:057-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars.lesson:14`. **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 ×2, 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 Qing and the Opium Wars, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/13/) - next →: [China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/)