--- title: In 221 BC the king of Qin conquered all the warring kingdoms and cal… — Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and… · tree and pragmatics description: In 221 BC the king of Qin conquered all the warring kingdoms and called himself Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor; the English name China may come from Qin. Who acts: king, English name. 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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 (king, English name), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:009-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall.lesson:12 # text = In 221 BC the king of Qin conquered all the warring kingdoms and called himself Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor; the English name China may come from Qin. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 009-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 221 221 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ _ 3 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Qin Qin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 conquered conquer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 12 det:predet _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 warring war VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_ 12 kingdoms kingdom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 16 Qin Qin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 xcomp _ _ 17 Shi Shi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 18 Huang Huang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 First first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 22 amod _ _ 22 Emperor emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Qin Qin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **conquer** | past | the king of Qin | all warring kingdoms | | 221 BC | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient | | 2 | **war** | gerund | | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | past | the king of Qin *not said here* | king | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient | | 4 | **come** | may | the English name | | | Qin | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from qin=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:009-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall.lesson:12`. **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): R8-pos-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. 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