Two empires and Shevchenko, sentence 8
The Valuev circular (1863) and the Ems decree (1876) banned most publishing and stage performance in Ukrainian in the Russian Empire, calling it a dialect of Russian; people still spoke it at home and in villages.
Who acts: Valuev circular, people · What happens: ban, publish, call, speak · To what, where: performance, home · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Valuev circular, people), 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 circular | det |
| 2 | Valuev | Valuev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 circular | compound |
| 3 | circular | circular | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 banned | nsubj |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 1863 | punct |
| 5 | 1863 | 1863 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 circular | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 1863 | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 decree | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 decree | det |
| 9 | Ems | Ems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 decree | compound |
| 10 | decree | decree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 circular | conj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 1876 | punct |
| 12 | 1876 | 1876 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 decree | appos |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 1876 | punct |
| 14 | banned | ban | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 publishing | advmod |
| 16 | publishing | publish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 banned | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 performance | cc |
| 18 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 performance | compound |
| 19 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 publishing | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Ukrainian | case |
| 21 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 performance | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Empire | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Empire | det |
| 24 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Empire | amod |
| 25 | Empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 performance | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 calling | punct |
| 27 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 banned | advcl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 calling | obj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 dialect | det |
| 30 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 calling | xcomp |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Russian | case |
| 32 | Russian | Russian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 dialect | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 spoke | punct |
| 34 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 spoke | nsubj |
| 35 | still | still | ADV | _ | 36 spoke | advmod |
| 36 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 banned | parataxis |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 spoke | obj |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 home | case |
| 39 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 spoke | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 villages | cc |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 villages | case |
| 42 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 home | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 banned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ban | past | the Valuev circular and the Ems decree | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 2 | publish | gerund | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | call | gerund | the Valuev circular and the Ems decree not said here | performance | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | people | performance | home and villages | still | tree rules |
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:8.
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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