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title: In Russia most peasants became serfs, bound to their landlord's esta… — Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Russia most peasants became serfs, bound to their landlord's estate and not free to leave, until serfdom was abolished in 1861. Who acts: most peasants. A sentence of the lesson «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew, sentence 8

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In Russia most peasants became serfs, bound to their landlord's estate and not free to leave, until serfdom was abolished in 1861.

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**Who acts:** most peasants · **What happens:** become, bound, leave, abolish · **To what, where:** Russia, serfs, estate, serfdom, 1861

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» of the geography 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 (most peasants), 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:8
# text = In Russia most peasants became serfs, bound to their landlord's estate and not free to leave, until serfdom was abolished in 1861.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	serfs	serf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	bound	bound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	estate	estate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	serfdom	serfdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	abolished	abolish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	1861	1861	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **become** | past | most peasants | Russia |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bound** | participle |  | serfs *not said here* |  | peasants's landlord's estate |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to estate=Destination |
| 3 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **abolish** | past · passive |  | serfdom |  | 1861 |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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 ×1. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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