Ukraine in the Second World War, sentence 1

From 1941 to 1944 Nazi Germany occupied Ukraine; millions of soldiers and civilians died, cities lay in ruins, and over two million people were taken to Germany as forced labourers, called Ostarbeiter, «eastern workers».

Who acts: Nazi Germany, millions, cities · What happens: occupy, die, lay, take, force, call · To what, where: Ukraine, 1941, ruins, million people, Germany, forced labourers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine in the Second World War» 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 (Nazi Germany, millions, cities), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 1941	case
2	1941	1941	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 occupied	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 1944	case
4	1944	1944	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 1941	nmod
5	Nazi	Nazi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Germany	compound
6	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 occupied	nsubj
7	occupied	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 occupied	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 died	punct
10	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 died	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 soldiers	case
12	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 millions	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 civilians	cc
14	civilians	civilian	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 soldiers	conj
15	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 occupied	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
17	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lay	nsubj
18	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 died	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 ruins	case
20	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lay	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 taken	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 taken	cc
23	over	over	ADV	_	25 million	advmod
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 million	compound
25	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 people	nummod
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 taken	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 taken	aux:pass
28	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 died	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 Germany	case
30	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 taken	obl
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 labourers	case
32	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 labourers	amod
33	labourers	labourer	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 taken	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 called	punct
35	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 labourers	acl
36	Ostarbeiter	Ostarbeiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 called	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 workers	punct
38	«	«	PUNCT	_	40 workers	punct
39	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 workers	amod
40	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 labourers	conj
41	»	»	PUNCT	_	40 workers	punct
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 occupied	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	occupy	past	Nazi Germany	Ukraine		1941 to 1944		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ukraine=Experiencer
2	die	past	millions of soldiers and civilians					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	lay	present	cities			ruins		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ruin=Destination
4	take	past · passive		million people	Germany		as forced labourers and eastern workers	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to germany=Destination
5	force	participle						vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	call	participle		forced labourers and eastern workers not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:047-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war.lesson:1.

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, R6-punct-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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