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title: Ilya Repin, born in Chuhuiv in Ukraine, finished Reply of the Zaporo… — Famous paintings and the stories behind them · tree and pragmatics
description: Ilya Repin, born in Chuhuiv in Ukraine, finished Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks in 1891; it shows a legend of Cossacks writing a cheeky, insulting letter to the Ottoman sultan. Who acts: Ilya, story, Cossacks. A sentence of the lesson «Famous paintings and the stories behind them» of the arts cou
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# Famous paintings and the stories behind them, sentence 15

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Ilya Repin, born in Chuhuiv in Ukraine, finished Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks in 1891; it shows a legend of Cossacks writing a cheeky, insulting letter to the Ottoman sultan.

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**Who acts:** Ilya, story, Cossacks · **What happens:** bear, finish, show, write · **To what, where:** Ilya, Chuhuiv, Reply, 1891, legend, cheeky insulting letter

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous paintings and the stories behind them» of the arts 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 (Ilya, story, Cossacks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:015-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them.lesson:15
# text = Ilya Repin, born in Chuhuiv in Ukraine, finished Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks in 1891; it shows a legend of Cossacks writing a cheeky, insulting letter to the Ottoman sultan.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 015-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Ilya	Ilya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	Repin	Repin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Chuhuiv	Chuhuiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Reply	reply	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Zaporozhian	zaporozhian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Cossacks	cossack	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1891	1891	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Cossacks	cossack	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
25	writing	write	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	insulting	insulting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
34	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  | Ilya *not said here* |  | Chuhuiv in Ukraine |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **finish** | past | Ilya | Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks |  | 1891 |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector reply=Eventuality |
| 3 | **show** | present | story | a legend of Cossacks |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent legend=Recipient |
| 4 | **write** | gerund | Cossacks *not said here* | a cheeky insulting letter | the Ottoman sultan |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to sultan=Recipient |

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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.

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**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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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