Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols, sentence 12

In December 1240 the Mongol army under Batu took Kyiv after a siege as part of a huge campaign across eastern Europe; much of the city was ruined, but it survived as a smaller town.

Who acts: Mongol army, army · What happens: take, ruin, survive · To what, where: Kyiv, much

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 (Mongol army, army), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 December	case
2	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl
3	1240	1240	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 December	nmod:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 army	det
5	Mongol	mongol	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 army	compound
6	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	nsubj
7	under	under	ADP	_	8 Batu	case
8	Batu	Batu	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 army	nmod
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 siege	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 siege	det
13	siege	siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 part	case
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 campaign	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 campaign	det
18	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 campaign	amod
19	campaign	campaign	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 part	nmod
20	across	across	ADP	_	22 Europe	case
21	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Europe	amod
22	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 campaign	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 much	punct
24	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ruined	nsubj:pass
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 city	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 city	det
27	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 much	nmod
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ruined	aux:pass
29	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 took	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 survived	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 survived	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 survived	nsubj
33	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ruined	conj
34	as	as	ADP	_	37 town	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 town	det
36	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 town	amod
37	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 survived	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Mongol army under Batu	Kyiv	after a siege; december	as part of a huge campaign across eastern Europe	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent kyiv=Theme as part=Attribute
2	ruin	past · passive		much of the city			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	survive	past	army			as a smaller town	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:12.

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 ×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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