Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 6

The bandura was played by kobzars, wandering singers of stories and songs; historians have documented that many kobzars were persecuted in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

Who acts: kobzars, historians · What happens: play, wander, document, persecute · To what, where: bandura, many kobzars, Soviet Union

This is a sentence of the lesson «Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more» of the arts 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 (kobzars, historians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bandura	det
2	bandura	bandura	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 played	aux:pass
4	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 kobzars	case
6	kobzars	kobzar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 played	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kobzars	punct
8	wandering	wander	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 singers	amod
9	singers	singer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kobzars	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 stories	case
11	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 singers	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 songs	cc
13	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stories	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 documented	punct
15	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 documented	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 documented	aux
17	documented	document	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 played	parataxis
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 persecuted	mark
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 kobzars	amod
20	kobzars	kobzar	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 persecuted	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 persecuted	aux:pass
22	persecuted	persecute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 documented	ccomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 Union	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Union	det
25	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Union	compound
26	Union	Union	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 persecuted	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 1930s	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 1930s	det
29	1930s	1930	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	22 persecuted	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	past · passive	kobzars	the bandura			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	wander	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	document	present · perfect	historians				tree rules
4	persecute	past · passive		many kobzars	the Soviet Union	in the 1930s	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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, 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:arts:010-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo.lesson:6.

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, 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.

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