Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks, sentence 3
On the wild steppe frontier the first Cossacks appeared, runaway peasants and others who fished, hunted and fought Tatar slave raiders; they loved freedom, and many also served the Polish king for pay, so both «free» and «paid» are true.
Who acts: first Cossacks, others, Cossacks, many, free » · What happens: appear, fish, hunt, fight, love, serve · To what, where: wild steppe frontier, Tatar slave raiders, freedom, Polish king, »
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 (first Cossacks, others, Cossacks, many), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 frontier | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 frontier | det |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 frontier | amod |
| 4 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 frontier | compound |
| 5 | frontier | frontier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appeared | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Cossacks | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 Cossacks | amod |
| 8 | Cossacks | Cossacks | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 appeared | nsubj |
| 9 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 peasants | punct |
| 11 | runaway | runaway | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 peasants | amod |
| 12 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Cossacks | appos |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 others | cc |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 peasants | conj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 fished | nsubj |
| 16 | fished | fish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 others | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hunted | punct |
| 18 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fished | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fought | cc |
| 20 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fished | conj |
| 21 | Tatar | tatar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 raiders | amod |
| 22 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 raiders | compound |
| 23 | raiders | raider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fought | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 loved | punct |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 loved | nsubj |
| 26 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appeared | parataxis |
| 27 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 loved | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 served | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 served | cc |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 served | nsubj |
| 31 | also | also | ADV | _ | 32 served | advmod |
| 32 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 loved | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 king | det |
| 34 | Polish | polish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 king | amod |
| 35 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 served | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 pay | case |
| 37 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 served | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 true | punct |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 49 true | advmod |
| 40 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 » | det |
| 41 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 42 free | punct |
| 42 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 » | amod |
| 43 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 true | nsubj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 « | cc |
| 45 | « | « | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 » | conj |
| 46 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 free | conj |
| 47 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 paid | obj |
| 48 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 true | cop |
| 49 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 appeared | parataxis |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the first Cossacks | the wild steppe frontier | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on frontier=Location | ||||
| 2 | fish | past | others | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hunt | past | others not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fight | past | others not said here | Tatar slave raiders | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raider=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | love | past | Cossacks | freedom | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer freedom=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | serve | past | many | the Polish king | for pay | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Theme for pay=Recipient | |||
| 7 | pay in a quote | participle | both free » and « not said here | » | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent »=Asset | ||||
| 8 | is | present | both free » and « | true property | tree rules |
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:3.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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