Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols, sentence 6

The chronicle says Volodymyr heard envoys of Islam, Judaism and Western and Byzantine Christianity, and his envoys praised Constantinople's churches; the chronicle even jokes that he turned Islam down because it forbade drinking; the real reasons were mostly politics, trade and a marriage alliance with Byzantium.

Who acts: chronicle, Volodymyr, envoys, faith, real reasons · What happens: say, hear, praise, joke, turn down, forbid · To what, where: envoys, churches, Islam, drinking, politics · 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 (chronicle, Volodymyr, envoys, faith), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/6/