Chornobyl and independence in 1991, sentence 10
The Ukrainian parliament declared independence on 24 August 1991, after a failed coup (an attempt to seize power) in Moscow; in the referendum of 1 December 1991 over 90% voted for independence, with majorities in every region, including Crimea.
Who acts: Ukrainian parliament · What happens: declare, fail, seize, vote · To what, where: independence, power, Moscow, referendum
This is a sentence of the lesson «Chornobyl and independence in 1991» 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 (Ukrainian parliament), 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 parliament | det |
| 2 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 parliament | amod |
| 3 | parliament | parliament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 declared | nsubj |
| 4 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 declared | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 August | case |
| 7 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 August | nummod |
| 8 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 declared | obl |
| 9 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 August | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 coup | punct |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 coup | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 coup | det |
| 13 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 coup | amod |
| 14 | coup | coup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 declared | obl |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 attempt | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 attempt | det |
| 17 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coup | appos |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 seize | mark |
| 19 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 attempt | acl |
| 20 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seize | obj |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 seize | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Moscow | case |
| 23 | Moscow | Moscow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 seize | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 voted | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 referendum | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 referendum | det |
| 27 | referendum | referendum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 voted | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 December | case |
| 29 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 December | nummod |
| 30 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 referendum | nmod |
| 31 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 December | flat |
| 32 | over | over | ADV | _ | 33 90 | advmod |
| 33 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 % | nummod |
| 34 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 35 voted | nsubj |
| 35 | voted | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 declared | parataxis |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 independence | case |
| 37 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 voted | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 majorities | punct |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 majorities | case |
| 40 | majorities | majority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 voted | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 region | case |
| 42 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 region | det |
| 43 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 majorities | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 Crimea | punct |
| 45 | including | include | ADP | _ | 46 Crimea | case |
| 46 | Crimea | Crimea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 majorities | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | the Ukrainian parliament | independence | after a failed coup; august | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute | |||
| 2 | fail | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | seize | to-infinitive | the Ukrainian parliament not said here | power | Moscow | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme | |||
| 4 | vote | past | the referendum of 1 December | for independence goal; with majorities in every region and Crimea | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for independence=Goal |
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:048-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991.lesson:10.
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): 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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