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title: Gia Long asked the Jiaqing Emperor of the Qing dynasty to confer on… — Vietnam · tree and pragmatics
description: Gia Long asked the Jiaqing Emperor of the Qing dynasty to confer on him the title 'King of Nam Việt / Nanyue' (南越 in Chinese character) after seizing power in Annam. Who acts: Gia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vietnam» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vietnam, sentence 36

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From Wikipedia, [«Vietnam»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Gia Long asked the Jiaqing Emperor of the Qing dynasty to confer on him the title 'King of Nam Việt / Nanyue' (南越 in Chinese character) after seizing power in Annam.

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**Who acts:** Gia · **What happens:** ask, confer, seize · **To what, where:** Jiaqing Emperor, title, power, Annam

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vietnam». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Vietnam:36
# text = Gia Long asked the Jiaqing Emperor of the Qing dynasty to confer on him the title 'King of Nam Việt / Nanyue' (南越 in Chinese character) after seizing power in Annam.
1	Gia	Gia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Long	Long	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	1	flat	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Jiaqing	Jiaqing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Qing	Qing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	confer	confer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Nam	Nam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	Việt	Việt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
22	/	/	SYM	,	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Nanyue	Nanyue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	南越	南越	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	appos	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
31	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
33	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Annam	Annam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Gia |  | the Jiaqing Emperor of the Qing dynasty |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **confer** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Gia *not said here* | the title |  |  |  | on Emperor | tree rules |
| 3 | **seize** | gerund | Gia *not said here* | power |  | Annam |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Vietnam», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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