--- title: Peter the Great built St Petersburg on the Baltic coast from 1703 an… — Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers… · tree and pragmatics description: Peter the Great built St Petersburg on the Baltic coast from 1703 and made it Russia's capital, giving Russia a sea port facing western Europe; many forced labourers died building it on marshy land. Who acts: Peter, sea port, many forced labourers. 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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 (Peter, sea port, many forced labourers), 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:9 # text = Peter the Great built St Petersburg on the Baltic coast from 1703 and made it Russia's capital, giving Russia a sea port facing western Europe; many forced labourers died building it on marshy land. # 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 ×2 1 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 1 det _ _ 3 Great great PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 4 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:desc _ _ 6 Petersburg Petersburg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Baltic baltic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 1703 1703 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:root 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 21 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 iobj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 port port NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 facing face VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 26 western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 31 labourers labourer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 33 building build VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 xcomp _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 marshy marshy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | past | the Peter | Petersburg St | | the Baltic coast from 1703 | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent petersburg=Theme on coast=Source | | 2 | **make** | past | the Peter *not said here* | Peter | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 3 | **give** | gerund | the Peter *not said here* | a sea port | Russia | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent russia=Recipient port=Theme | | 4 | **face** | gerund | a sea port *not said here* | | western Europe | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme europe=Destination | | 5 | **force** | participle | | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **die** | past | many forced labourers | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **build** | gerund | many forced labourers *not said here* | Peter | | marshy land | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme on land=Source | 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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