Two empires and Shevchenko, sentence 12
Mykola (Nikolai) Gogol was born in Ukraine and wrote stories about Ukrainian life, but he wrote in Russian and lived in St Petersburg and Rome, so both cultures claim him.
Who acts: Ukraine, cultures · What happens: bear, write, live, claim · To what, where: Mykola, Ukraine, stories, Russian, St Petersburg
This is a sentence of the lesson «Two empires and Shevchenko» 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 (Ukraine, cultures), 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 | Mykola | Mykola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 born | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 Nikolai | punct |
| 3 | Nikolai | Nikolai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mykola | conj |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 Nikolai | punct |
| 5 | Gogol | Gogol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Nikolai | flat |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | aux:pass |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Ukraine | case |
| 9 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 born | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wrote | cc |
| 11 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | conj |
| 12 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wrote | obj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 14 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 life | amod |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stories | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wrote | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 wrote | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wrote | nsubj |
| 19 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Russian | case |
| 21 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wrote | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lived | cc |
| 23 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wrote | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Petersburg | case |
| 25 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Petersburg | flat |
| 26 | Petersburg | Petersburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 lived | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Rome | cc |
| 28 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Petersburg | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 claim | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 claim | advmod |
| 31 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 cultures | det |
| 32 | cultures | culture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 claim | nsubj |
| 33 | claim | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | conj |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 claim | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 born | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | Mykola and Nikolai | Ukraine | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | write | past | stories | about Ukrainian life | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about life=Topic | ||||
| 3 | write | past | Ukraine | Russian | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in russian=Destination | ||||
| 4 | live | past | Ukraine not said here | St Petersburg and Rome | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in petersburg=Location | ||||
| 5 | claim speech: other | present | both cultures | Ukraine | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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:045-two-empires-and-shevchenko.lesson:12.
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 ×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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