Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols, sentence 1
Volodymyr was not a saint from the start: as a young pagan prince he fought his own brothers for the throne, and only later built churches and schools; history keeps both halves of a life.
Who acts: Volodymyr, history · What happens: not be, fight, build, keep · To what, where: saint, start, own brothers, churches, halves
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 (Volodymyr, history), 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 | Volodymyr | Volodymyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saint | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saint | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 saint | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 saint | det |
| 5 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 start | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 start | det |
| 8 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saint | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 fought | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 prince | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 prince | amod |
| 13 | pagan | pagan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 prince | amod |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fought | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fought | nsubj |
| 16 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saint | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 brothers | amod |
| 19 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fought | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 throne | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 throne | det |
| 22 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fought | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 built | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 built | cc |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 later | advmod |
| 26 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 built | advmod |
| 27 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fought | conj |
| 28 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 built | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 schools | cc |
| 30 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 churches | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 halves | punct |
| 32 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 keeps | nsubj |
| 33 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 saint | parataxis |
| 34 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 halves | det |
| 35 | halves | half | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 keeps | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 life | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 life | det |
| 38 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 halves | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saint | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | Volodymyr | a saint | the start | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fight | past | Volodymyr | Volodymyr's own brothers | as a young pagan prince; for the throne | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | build | past | Volodymyr not said here | churches and schools | late property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset church=Product | |||
| 4 | keep | present | history | both halves of a life | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme |
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:1.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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