The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor, sentence 6

At Kruty in January 1918 a few hundred defenders, among them student volunteers, fought a much larger Bolshevik force; many young men died, the advance was delayed only briefly, and the battle became a symbol of sacrifice.

Who acts: few hundred defenders, many young men, battle · What happens: fight, die, delay, become · To what, where: larger Bolshevik force, Kruty, advance, symbol

This is a sentence of the lesson «The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor» 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 (few hundred defenders, many young men, battle), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 Kruty	case
2	Kruty	Kruty	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 fought	obl
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 January	case
4	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Kruty	nmod
5	1918	1918	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 January	flat
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 defenders	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 defenders	amod
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 defenders	nummod
9	defenders	defender	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fought	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 volunteers	punct
11	among	among	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 defenders	nmod
13	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 volunteers	compound
14	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 defenders	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 defenders	punct
16	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 force	det
18	much	much	ADV	_	19 larger	advmod
19	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 force	amod
20	Bolshevik	Bolshevik	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 force	compound
21	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fought	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 died	punct
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 men	amod
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 men	amod
25	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 died	nsubj
26	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fought	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 delayed	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 advance	det
29	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 delayed	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 delayed	aux:pass
31	delayed	delay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 died	conj
32	only	only	ADV	_	33 briefly	advmod
33	briefly	briefly	ADV	_	31 delayed	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 became	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 became	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 battle	det
37	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 became	nsubj
38	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fought	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 symbol	det
40	symbol	symbol	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 became	xcomp
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 sacrifice	case
42	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 symbol	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 fought	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fight	past	a few hundred defenders among people	a larger Bolshevik force	Kruty in January		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Co-Agent
2	die	past	many young men				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	delay	past · passive		the advance		briefly property	vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: subject=Source
4	become	past	the battle	a symbol of sacrifice			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:046-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor.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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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