Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols, sentence 5
Prince Volodymyr accepted Christianity from Byzantium around 988; the chronicle tells of a mass baptism of Kyivans in the river, and the new faith then spread slowly over generations, mixing with old beliefs.
Who acts: Prince, chronicle, new faith · What happens: accept, tell, spread, mix · To what, where: Christianity, Byzantium, generations · 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, chronicle, new faith), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | nsubj |
| 2 | Volodymyr | Volodymyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Christianity | Christianity | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Byzantium | case |
| 6 | Byzantium | Byzantium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | obl |
| 7 | around | around | ADV | _ | 8 988 | advmod |
| 8 | 988 | 988 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 accepted | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 tells | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chronicle | det |
| 11 | chronicle | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tells | nsubj |
| 12 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 accepted | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 baptism | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 baptism | det |
| 15 | mass | mass | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 baptism | amod |
| 16 | baptism | baptism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tells | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Kyivans | case |
| 18 | Kyivans | kyivan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 baptism | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 river | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 river | det |
| 21 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 baptism | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 spread | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 spread | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 faith | det |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 faith | amod |
| 26 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 spread | nsubj |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 spread | advmod |
| 28 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 accepted | conj |
| 29 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 28 spread | advmod |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 generations | case |
| 31 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 spread | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 mixing | punct |
| 33 | mixing | mix | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 spread | advcl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 beliefs | case |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 beliefs | amod |
| 36 | beliefs | belief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 mixing | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | Prince | Christianity | Byzantium | 988 obl:unmarked | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent christianity=Theme from byzantium=Source | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | the chronicle | of a mass baptism of Kyivans in the river | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | spread | past | the new faith | over generations; then | slowly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over generation=Location | |||
| 4 | mix | gerund | the new faith not said here | with old beliefs | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with belief=Co-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:5.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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