--- title: After the civil war, Mao Zedong declared the People's Republic of Ch… — China: 1911, 1949 and Mao · tree and pragmatics description: After the civil war, Mao Zedong declared the People's Republic of China in Beijing on 1 October 1949, and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan. Who acts: Mao, Nationalist government. 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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 (Mao, Nationalist government), 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:18 # text = After the civil war, Mao Zedong declared the People's Republic of China in Beijing on 1 October 1949, and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan. # 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 1 After after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 civil civil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 Mao Mao PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 Zedong Zedong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 People People PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 Republic Republic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Beijing Beijing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 17 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ _ 19 October October PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:unmarked _ _ 20 1949 1949 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 flat _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Nationalist nationalist ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 retreated retreat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Taiwan Taiwan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Mao | the People's Republic of China | | Beijing | after the civil war | on 1 | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republic=Attribute | | 2 | **retreat** | past | the Nationalist government | | | Taiwan | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to taiwan=Initial\_Location | 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:18`. **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. **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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/17/) - next →: [China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/)