Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks, sentence 14
Prince Dmytro Vyshnevetsky, called Baida, built a fortress on the island of Mala Khortytsia around 1552–1556, often seen as a forerunner of the Zaporizhian Sich; the story of his death in Istanbul comes from a folk song.
Who acts: Dmytro, story · What happens: call, build, see, come, die · To what, where: Dmytro, fortress, island, folk song, Istanbul · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks» 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 (Dmytro, story), 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 | 2 Dmytro | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Dmytro | Dmytro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 built | nsubj |
| 3 | Vyshnevetsky | Vyshnevetsky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dmytro | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Dmytro | acl |
| 6 | Baida | Baida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dmytro | punct |
| 8 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fortress | det |
| 10 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 island | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 island | det |
| 13 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Mala | case |
| 15 | Mala | Mala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 island | nmod |
| 16 | Khortytsia | Khortytsia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Mala | flat |
| 17 | around | around | ADP | _ | 18 1552 | case |
| 18 | 1552 | 1552 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 built | obl |
| 19 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 20 1556 | case |
| 20 | 1556 | 1556 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 1552 | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seen | punct |
| 22 | often | often | ADV | _ | 23 seen | advmod |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 built | advcl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 forerunner | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 forerunner | det |
| 26 | forerunner | forerunner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seen | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Zaporizhian | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Zaporizhian | det |
| 29 | Zaporizhian | Zaporizhian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 forerunner | nmod |
| 30 | Sich | Sich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Zaporizhian | flat |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 story | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 story | det |
| 33 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 comes | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 death | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 death | nmod:poss |
| 36 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 story | nmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 Istanbul | case |
| 38 | Istanbul | Istanbul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 death | nmod |
| 39 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 built | parataxis |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 song | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 song | det |
| 42 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 song | compound |
| 43 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 comes | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 built | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Dmytro Prince not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | build | past | Dmytro Prince | a fortress | the island of Mala | around 1552 – 1556 | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fortress=Theme on island=Source | ||
| 3 | see | participle | Dmytro Prince not said here | as a forerunner of the Zaporizhian; often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as forerunner=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | come | present | the story of story's death in Istanbul | a folk song | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from song=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | die | story | Istanbul | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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:043-lithuanian-and-polish-times-the-first-cossacks.lesson:14.
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): 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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