--- title: The wise answer: the Manchus from the northeast founded it and kept… — China: the Qing and the Opium Wars · tree and pragmatics description: The wise answer: the Manchus from the northeast founded it and kept their own customs, but they ruled through Chinese institutions and the empire became one of China's greatest. Who acts: wise answer, Manchus, empire. 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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 (wise answer, Manchus, empire), 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:2 # text = The wise answer: the Manchus from the northeast founded it and kept their own customs, but they ruled through Chinese institutions and the empire became one of China's greatest. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Manchus Manchus PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:appos|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 northeast northeast NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 founded found VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 customs custom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 ruled rule VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis 21 through through ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 institutions institution NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 empire empire NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 xcomp _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **found** | past | the wise answer | northeast | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 2 | **keep** | past | the wise answer *not said here* | Manchus's own customs | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Theme | | 3 | **rule** | past | Manchus | | | Chinese institutions | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **become** | past | the empire | | | | | | 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:057-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars.lesson:2`. **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 ×1, 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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/1/) - next →: [China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/)