--- title: Puyi became emperor in 1908 aged two and gave up the throne in 1912;… — China: the Qing and the Opium Wars · tree and pragmatics description: Puyi became emperor in 1908 aged two and gave up the throne in 1912; later Japan made him ruler of Manchukuo, a state in the northeast that Japan really controlled, and after prison he worked at Beijing's botanical garden. Who acts: Puyi, Japan. 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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 (Puyi, Japan), 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:22 # text = Puyi became emperor in 1908 aged two and gave up the throne in 1912; later Japan made him ruler of Manchukuo, a state in the northeast that Japan really controlled, and after prison he worked at Beijing's botanical garden. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Puyi Puyi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 xcomp _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1908 1908 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 6 aged aged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 1912 1912 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 17 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Manchukuo Manchukuo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 northeast northeast NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 obj _ _ 30 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 really really ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 controlled control VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 after after ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 worked work VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 Beijing Beijing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod:poss _ _ 41 's 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 botanical botanical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 43 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | Puyi | emperor | | | | in 1908 *result*; two *obl:unmarked* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1908=Result | | 2 | **give up** | past | Puyi *not said here* | the throne | | 1912 | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Source | | 3 | **make** | past | Japan | Puyi | | | | late *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product | | 4 | **control** | past | Japan | the northeast | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 5 | **work** | past | Japan | | | | after prison | at Beijing's botanical garden | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at garden=Theme | 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:22`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/21/) - next →: [China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/)