The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate, sentence 5
The Zaporizhian Sich below the Dnipro rapids was a Cossack stronghold where the council (rada) elected and could remove its leaders; only Cossack men had a voice, women were not allowed in, and Athens and Iceland's Althing had assemblies much earlier.
Who acts: Zaporizhian Sich, Cossack men, Athens · What happens: be, elect, remove, have, not allow · To what, where: Cossack stronghold, council, leaders, voice, women, assemblies
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 (Zaporizhian Sich, Cossack men, Athens), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sich | det |
| 2 | Zaporizhian | Zaporizhian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sich | compound |
| 3 | Sich | Sich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 stronghold | nsubj |
| 4 | below | below | ADP | _ | 7 rapids | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rapids | det |
| 6 | Dnipro | Dnipro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rapids | compound |
| 7 | rapids | rapid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Sich | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stronghold | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stronghold | det |
| 10 | Cossack | cossack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stronghold | compound |
| 11 | stronghold | stronghold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 had | parataxis |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 elected | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 council | det |
| 14 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 rada | punct |
| 16 | rada | rada | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 council | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 rada | punct |
| 18 | elected | elect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stronghold | acl:relcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 remove | cc |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 remove | aux |
| 21 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 elected | conj |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 leaders | nmod:poss |
| 23 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 remove | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 men | advmod |
| 26 | Cossack | cossack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 men | compound |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 remove | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 voice | det |
| 30 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 allowed | punct |
| 32 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 allowed | aux:pass |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 allowed | advmod |
| 35 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 had | parataxis |
| 36 | in | in | ADV | _ | 35 allowed | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 had | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Athens | cc |
| 39 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 had | nsubj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 Althing | cc |
| 41 | Iceland | Iceland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Althing | nmod:poss |
| 42 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 41 Iceland | case |
| 43 | Althing | Althing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Athens | conj |
| 44 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 45 | assemblies | assembly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 had | obj |
| 46 | much | much | ADV | _ | 47 earlier | advmod |
| 47 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 44 had | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stronghold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Zaporizhian Sich below the Dnipro rapids | a Cossack stronghold | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | elect | past · passive | the council | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | remove | could | Sich's leaders | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | past | Cossack men | a voice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not allow | past · passive | women | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 6 | have | past | Athens and Iceland's Althing | assemblies | early property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assembly=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:044-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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