Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols, sentence 10
The Ruska Pravda, begun under Yaroslav, is one of the earliest written law codes of the eastern Slavs; it replaced blood revenge with fines for many crimes, though Roman and Anglo-Saxon laws were older.
Who acts: Ruska Pravda, Pravda, Roman · What happens: begin, be, write, replace, code · To what, where: Ruska Pravda, Yaroslav, one, blood revenge, eastern Slavs
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 (Ruska Pravda, Pravda, Roman), 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 | 3 Pravda | det |
| 2 | Ruska | Ruska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Pravda | compound |
| 3 | Pravda | Pravda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 one | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 begun | punct |
| 5 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Pravda | acl |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 Yaroslav | case |
| 7 | Yaroslav | Yaroslav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 begun | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Pravda | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | cop |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 codes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 codes | det |
| 13 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 codes | amod |
| 14 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 codes | amod |
| 15 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 codes | compound |
| 16 | codes | code | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Slavs | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Slavs | det |
| 19 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Slavs | amod |
| 20 | Slavs | slav | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 codes | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 revenge | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 replaced | nsubj |
| 23 | replaced | replace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | parataxis |
| 24 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 revenge | compound |
| 25 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 replaced | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 fines | case |
| 27 | fines | fine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 replaced | obl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 crimes | case |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 crimes | amod |
| 30 | crimes | crime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 fines | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Roman | punct |
| 32 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 40 older | mark |
| 33 | Roman | Roman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 older | nsubj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 laws | cc |
| 35 | Anglo | Anglo | X | _ | 37 Saxon | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Anglo | punct |
| 37 | Saxon | Saxon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Roman | conj |
| 38 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 Roman | conj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 older | cop |
| 40 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 replaced | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | participle | the Ruska Pravda not said here | Yaroslav | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Ruska Pravda | one | of the earliest written law codes of the eastern Slavs | tree rules | |||
| 3 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | replace | past | Pravda | blood revenge | with fines for many crimes | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme revenge=Location with fine=Co-Theme | |||
| 5 | is | past | Roman and Anglo Saxon and laws | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | code | the eastern Slavs | nom code «communication transitive»: of=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:10.
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, R8-pos-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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