--- title: Japan avoided European rule and built its own empire, ruling Taiwan… — When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and… · tree and pragmatics description: Japan avoided European rule and built its own empire, ruling Taiwan from 1895 and Korea from 1910 until 1945; in some years Koreans were pushed to use Japanese names and language. Who acts: 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 (Japan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.lesson:11 # text = Japan avoided European rule and built its own empire, ruling Taiwan from 1895 and Korea from 1910 until 1945; in some years Koreans were pushed to use Japanese names and language. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 avoided avoid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 empire empire NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 ruling rule VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 12 Taiwan Taiwan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 1895 1895 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 Korea Korea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 1910 1910 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ _ 19 until until ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 1945 1945 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 25 Koreans korean PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 27 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advcl 30 Japanese Japanese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **avoid** | past | Japan | European rule | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent rule=Location | | 2 | **build** | past | Japan *not said here* | rule's own empire | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset empire=Product | | 3 | **rule** | gerund | Japan *not said here* | Taiwan | | 1895 from 1910 until 1945 and Korea | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent taiwan=Result | | 4 | **push** | past · passive | | Koreans | | | year | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **use** | to-infinitive | | Japanese names and language | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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:076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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: [When civilizations meet: conquest, col…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/76-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides/10/) - next →: [When civilizations meet: conquest, col…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/76-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/76-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides/)