"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 14
Ukraine declared independence on 24 August 1991, 35 years before 2026.
Who acts: Ukraine · What happens: declare · To what, where: independence
This is a sentence of the lesson «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» of the world 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 (Ukraine), 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 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 declared | nsubj |
| 2 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 declared | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 August | case |
| 5 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 August | nummod |
| 6 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 declared | obl |
| 7 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 August | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 years | punct |
| 9 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 declared | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 2026 | case |
| 12 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 years | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | Ukraine | independence | august; year | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute |
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:world:126-in-the-olden-days.lesson:14.
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): no change. 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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