The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate, sentence 13
Catherine II destroyed the Zaporizhian Sich in 1775; some Cossacks went to Ottoman lands (the Danube Sich), and others were later moved to the Kuban, where their descendants still live.
Who acts: Catherine, Cossacks, descendants · What happens: destroy, go, move, live · To what, where: Zaporizhian Sich, 1775, Ottoman lands, others
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate» 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 (Catherine, Cossacks, descendants), 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 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 destroyed | nsubj |
| 2 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 1 Catherine | flat |
| 3 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sich | det |
| 5 | Zaporizhian | Zaporizhian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sich | compound |
| 6 | Sich | Sich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 destroyed | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1775 | case |
| 8 | 1775 | 1775 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 destroyed | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 Cossacks | det |
| 11 | Cossacks | cossack | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 destroyed | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 lands | case |
| 14 | Ottoman | ottoman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lands | amod |
| 15 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sich | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sich | det |
| 18 | Danube | Danube | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sich | compound |
| 19 | Sich | Sich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lands | appos |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sich | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 moved | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 moved | cc |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 moved | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 moved | aux:pass |
| 25 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 moved | advmod |
| 26 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 went | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Kuban | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Kuban | det |
| 29 | Kuban | Kuban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 moved | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 live | punct |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 live | advmod |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 descendants | nmod:poss |
| 33 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 live | nsubj |
| 34 | still | still | ADV | _ | 35 live | advmod |
| 35 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 Kuban | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 destroyed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | past | Catherine | the Zaporizhian Sich | 1775 | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sich=Patient | |||
| 2 | go | past | some Cossacks | Ottoman lands | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | move | past · passive | others | to the Kuban result; late property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme to kuban=Result | ||||
| 4 | live | present | Cossacks's descendants | still | 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:044-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate.lesson:13.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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