The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate, sentence 7

In the early 17th century Cossacks in light boats called chaiky raided Ottoman Black Sea towns such as Sinop and even the outskirts of Istanbul, but they did not capture the city.

Who acts: light boats, Cossacks · What happens: call, raid, not capture · To what, where: chaiky, Ottoman Sea towns, city · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (light boats, Cossacks), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 century	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 century	det
3	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 century	amod
4	17th	17th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	5 century	amod
5	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 raided	obl
6	Cossacks	cossack	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 raided	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 boats	case
8	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boats	amod
9	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Cossacks	nmod
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 boats	acl
11	chaiky	chaiky	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp
12	raided	raid	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Ottoman	Ottoman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 towns	amod
14	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Sea	amod
15	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 towns	compound
16	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 raided	obj
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	19 Sinop	case
18	as	as	ADP	_	17 such	fixed
19	Sinop	Sinop	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 towns	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 outskirts	cc
21	even	even	ADV	_	23 outskirts	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 outskirts	det
23	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 towns	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Istanbul	case
25	Istanbul	Istanbul	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 outskirts	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 capture	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 capture	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 capture	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 capture	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 capture	advmod
31	capture	capture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 raided	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 city	det
33	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 capture	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 raided	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle	light boats not said here	chaiky			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	raid	past	Cossacks in light boats	Ottoman Sea towns and the outskirts of Istanbul	century	such Sinop	vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent town=Location
3	not capture	past · do-support	Cossacks = cossack	the city			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=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:7.

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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