--- title: Russian serfs were bound to the land and could be sold with it, Iris… — Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers… · tree and pragmatics description: Russian serfs were bound to the land and could be sold with it, Irish Catholics lost most of their land to settlers, and Siberian peoples lost their hunting grounds to fur traders. Who acts: Russian serfs, Irish Catholics, Siberian peoples. 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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 (Russian serfs, Irish Catholics, Siberian peoples), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:034-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew.lesson:3 # text = Russian serfs were bound to the land and could be sold with it, Irish Catholics lost most of their land to settlers, and Siberian peoples lost their hunting grounds to fur traders. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 034-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 serfs serf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 bound bound ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 sold sell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 15 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Catholics Catholic PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 18 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 settlers settler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 Siberian Siberian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 grounds grounds NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 28 obj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 33 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 traders trader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Russian serfs | | | | | to the land; bound *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sell** | could · passive | Russian serfs *not said here* | | | | | with land | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient» | | 3 | **lose** | past | Irish Catholics | most of Catholics's land | | | | to settlers | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality | | 4 | **lose** | past | Siberian peoples | people's hunting grounds | | | | to fur traders | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grounds=Eventuality | 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. 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