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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 (Moscow, land, Ivan), 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:5 # text = Moscow was a small principality, a land ruled by a prince, under the overlordship of the Golden Horde in 1337, and it grew into the centre of a large Russian state; Ivan III stopped paying tribute, the yearly payment of a ruled land to its overlord, to the Horde in 1480. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Moscow Moscow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 principality principality NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 9 ruled rule VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 under under ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 overlordship overlordship NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 Horde Horde PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 1337 1337 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 37 III III NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 36 flat _ _ 38 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 39 paying pay VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 xcomp _ _ 40 tribute tribute NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 yearly yearly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 payment payment NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 ruled rule VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 amod _ _ 48 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 49 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 overlord overlord NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 53 to to ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 Horde Horde PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 56 in in ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 1480 1480 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 55 nmod _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Moscow | a small principality and the overlordship of the Golden Horde in 1337 and the yearly payment of a ruled land to land's overlord and the Horde in 1480 | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **rule** | participle | | a land *not said here* | | | | by a prince | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grow** | past | land | | | | | into the centre of a large Russian state *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into centre=Result | | 4 | **stop** | past | Ivan | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **pay** | gerund | Ivan *not said here* | tribute | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribute=Asset | | 6 | **rule** | participle | | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **pay** | | | a ruled land | | | | to land's overlord | nom payment «possession transitive»: of=patient to=obl | 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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