--- title: After 1916 China was divided among warlords; on 4 May 1919 students… — China: 1911, 1949 and Mao · tree and pragmatics description: After 1916 China was divided among warlords; on 4 May 1919 students in Beijing protested because the peace treaty after the First World War gave Germany's old rights in the Shandong region to Japan instead of back to China, and the May Fourth movement called for science, democracy and writing in eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [China: 1911, 1949 and Mao](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/) / 14 # China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, sentence 14 After 1916 China was divided among warlords; on 4 May 1919 students in Beijing protested because the peace treaty after the First World War gave Germany's old rights in the Shandong region to Japan instead of back to China, and the May Fourth movement called for science, democracy and writing in everyday language. **Who acts:** 4 May students, peace treaty · **What happens:** divide, protest, give, call · **To what, where:** China, old rights, Japan, Shandong region, May Fourth movement · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «China: 1911, 1949 and Mao» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (4 May students, peace treaty), 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:14 # text = After 1916 China was divided among warlords; on 4 May 1919 students in Beijing protested because the peace treaty after the First World War gave Germany's old rights in the Shandong region to Japan instead of back to China, and the May Fourth movement called for science, democracy and writing in everyday language. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 After after ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1916 1916 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 3 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 divided divide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 among among ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 warlords warlord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 11 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 1919 1919 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nmod:unmarked _ _ 13 students student NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Beijing Beijing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 protested protest VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 treaty treaty NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 21 after after ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 First First ADJ NNP Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 amod _ _ 24 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 26 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 27 Germany Germany PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 rights right NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 Shandong Shandong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 region region NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 37 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 39 case _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 37 fixed _ _ 39 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:nmod 42 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 45 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 46 Fourth fourth NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 48 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 acl _ _ 49 for for ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 51 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 52 democracy democracy NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ _ 55 in in ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 everyday everyday ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=57:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 57 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **divide** | past · passive | | China | | | after 1916 | among warlords | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **protest** *speech: disagree* | past | 4 May students in Beijing | | | | | | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** | past | the peace treaty after the World War | Germany's old rights | Japan | the Shandong region | | instead back | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent right=Theme to japan=Recipient | | 4 | **call** | participle | | the May Fourth movement *not said here* | | | | for science and democracy and writing in everyday language | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for science=Recipient | 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: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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/12/) - next →: [China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/)