--- title: Around 988 Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv took Christianity from Byzantium… — Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols · tree and pragmatics description: Around 988 Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv took Christianity from Byzantium; Danylo says he dunked everyone in the Dnipro in one day, but a whole land took generations to change, the way a school takes years to change its habits, not one assembly. Who acts: Prince Volodymyr, Danylo, whole land, school. 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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 (Prince Volodymyr, Danylo, whole land, school), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:042-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols.lesson:0 # text = Around 988 Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv took Christianity from Byzantium; Danylo says he dunked everyone in the Dnipro in one day, but a whole land took generations to change, the way a school takes years to change its habits, not one assembly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 042-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Around around ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 988 988 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 3 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:desc 4 Volodymyr Volodymyr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Kyiv Kyiv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Christianity Christianity PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Byzantium Byzantium PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 Danylo Danylo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 dunked dunk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 15 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Dnipro Dnipro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 29 generations generation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 38 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 41 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 habits habit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 45 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 46 nummod _ _ 46 assembly assembly NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv | 988 | | Byzantium | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent christianity=Theme from byzantium=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Danylo | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **dunk** | past | Danylo | everyone | | the Dnipro | day | | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme in dnipro=Trajectory | | 4 | **take** | past | a whole land | generations | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent generation=Theme | | 5 | **change** | to-infinitive | a whole land *not said here* | the way | | | | one assembly *obl* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **take** | present | a school | the way *not said here* | | | year | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 7 | **change** | to-infinitive | a school *not said here* | school's habits | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=Patient | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:042-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols.lesson:0`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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. 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