--- title: The 1911 Revolution began with an uprising in Wuchang on 10 October… — China: 1911, 1949 and Mao · tree and pragmatics description: The 1911 Revolution began with an uprising in Wuchang on 10 October 1911; the Qing fell, and the Republic of China was declared in 1912 with Sun Yat-sen as provisional president. Who acts: 1911 Revolution, Qing. 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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 (1911 Revolution, Qing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:058-china-1911-1949-and-mao.lesson:11 # text = The 1911 Revolution began with an uprising in Wuchang on 10 October 1911; the Qing fell, and the Republic of China was declared in 1912 with Sun Yat-sen as provisional president. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 058-china-1911-1949-and-mao.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 1911 1911 PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Revolution Revolution PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 uprising uprising NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Wuchang Wuchang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 12 October October PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:unmarked _ _ 13 1911 1911 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 flat _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 16 Qing Qing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Republic Republic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 declared declare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 1912 1912 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 obl _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 30 Yat Yat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 32 sen sen NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 33 as as ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 provisional provisional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the 1911 Revolution | | | 10 October | | with a uprising in Wuchang | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with uprising=Subeventuality | | 2 | **fall** | past | the Qing | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past · passive | | the Republic of China | | 1912 | | with Sun sen as provisional president | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | 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:058-china-1911-1949-and-mao.lesson:11`. **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. **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: 1911, 1949 and Mao, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/10/) - next →: [China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/)