Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols, sentence 0
Around 988 Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv took Christianity from Byzantium; Danylo says he dunked everyone in the Dnipro in one day, but a whole land took generations to change, the way a school takes years to change its habits, not one assembly.
Who acts: Prince Volodymyr, Danylo, whole land, school · What happens: take, say, dunk, change · To what, where: 988, Byzantium, everyone, Dnipro, generations, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols» of the history 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 (Prince Volodymyr, Danylo, whole land, school), 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 | Around | around | ADV | _ | 2 988 | advmod |
| 2 | 988 | 988 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 took | obl |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Volodymyr | compound |
| 4 | Volodymyr | Volodymyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Kyiv | case |
| 6 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Volodymyr | nmod |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Christianity | Christianity | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Byzantium | case |
| 10 | Byzantium | Byzantium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 12 | Danylo | Danylo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 says | nsubj |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | parataxis |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dunked | nsubj |
| 15 | dunked | dunk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 says | ccomp |
| 16 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 dunked | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Dnipro | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Dnipro | det |
| 19 | Dnipro | Dnipro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 dunked | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 day | nummod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dunked | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 took | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 took | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 land | det |
| 26 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 land | amod |
| 27 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 took | nsubj |
| 28 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 29 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 took | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 change | mark |
| 31 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 took | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 way | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 way | det |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 change | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 school | det |
| 36 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 takes | nsubj |
| 37 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 way | acl:relcl |
| 38 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 takes | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 change | mark |
| 40 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 takes | advcl |
| 41 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 habits | nmod:poss |
| 42 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 change | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 assembly | punct |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 assembly | advmod |
| 45 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 assembly | nummod |
| 46 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 change | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv | 988 | Byzantium | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent christianity=Theme from byzantium=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Danylo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | dunk | past | Danylo | everyone | the Dnipro | day | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme in dnipro=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | take | past | a whole land | generations | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent generation=Theme | ||||
| 5 | change | to-infinitive | a whole land not said here | the way | one assembly obl | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | take | present | a school | the way not said here | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||
| 7 | change | to-infinitive | a school not said here | school's habits | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=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:history:042-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols.lesson:0.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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.
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