--- title: The bandura was played by kobzars, wandering singers of stories and… — Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar,… · tree and pragmatics description: The bandura was played by kobzars, wandering singers of stories and songs; historians have documented that many kobzars were persecuted in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Who acts: kobzars, historians. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kobzars, historians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:010-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo.lesson:6 # text = The bandura was played by kobzars, wandering singers of stories and songs; historians have documented that many kobzars were persecuted in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 010-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo.lesson # annotation = 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bandura bandura NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 kobzars kobzar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 wandering wander VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 amod _ _ 9 singers singer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 historians historian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 documented document VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 kobzars kobzar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 persecuted persecute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advcl 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 Soviet Soviet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Union Union PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 1930s 1930 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 22 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | past · passive | kobzars | the bandura | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **wander** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **document** | present · perfect | historians | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **persecute** | past · passive | | many kobzars | | the Soviet Union | | in the 1930s | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:arts:010-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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