Two empires and Shevchenko, sentence 6
Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861) was born a serf, was bought out of serfdom in 1838 with the help of artists, and became Ukraine's national poet and a painter; his «Kobzar» (1840) is a founding book of modern Ukrainian literature.
Who acts: Kobzar · What happens: bear, buy out, become, found, be, help · To what, where: Taras Shevchenko, serfdom, 1838, national poet, founding book, artists
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 (Kobzar), 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 | Taras | Taras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Shevchenko | flat |
| 2 | Shevchenko | Shevchenko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 born | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 1814 | punct |
| 4 | 1814 | 1814 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Shevchenko | appos |
| 5 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 6 1861 | punct |
| 6 | 1861 | 1861 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 1814 | nmod |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 1814 | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 born | aux:pass |
| 9 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 serf | det |
| 11 | serf | serf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 born | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bought | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bought | aux:pass |
| 14 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 born | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 serfdom | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 serfdom | case |
| 17 | serfdom | serfdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bought | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 1838 | case |
| 19 | 1838 | 1838 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 bought | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 help | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 help | det |
| 22 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bought | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 artists | case |
| 24 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 help | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 became | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 became | cc |
| 27 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 born | conj |
| 28 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 poet | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Ukraine | case |
| 30 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 poet | amod |
| 31 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 became | xcomp |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 painter | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 painter | det |
| 34 | painter | painter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 poet | conj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 born | punct |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 Kobzar | nmod:poss |
| 37 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 38 Kobzar | punct |
| 38 | Kobzar | Kobzar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 book | nsubj |
| 39 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Kobzar | flat |
| 40 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 41 1840 | punct |
| 41 | 1840 | 1840 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 Kobzar | nmod:unmarked |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 41 1840 | punct |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 book | cop |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 book | det |
| 45 | founding | found | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 46 book | amod |
| 46 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 born | parataxis |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 literature | case |
| 48 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 literature | amod |
| 49 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 literature | amod |
| 50 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 book | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 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 | Taras Shevchenko | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | buy out | past · passive | serfdom | 1838 | with the help of artists | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: serfdom=Theme | |||
| 3 | become | past | Ukraine's national poet and a painter | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | found | gerund | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | Shevchenko's Kobzar 1840 | a founding book | of modern Ukrainian literature | tree rules | |||
| 6 | help | artists | nom help «act transitive»: of=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:045-two-empires-and-shevchenko.lesson:6.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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