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title: Volodymyr was not a saint from the start: as a young pagan prince he… — Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols · tree and pragmatics
description: Volodymyr was not a saint from the start: as a young pagan prince he fought his own brothers for the throne, and only later built churches and schools; history keeps both halves of a life. Who acts: Volodymyr, history. A sentence of the lesson «Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols» of the hi
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# Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols, sentence 1

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Volodymyr was not a saint from the start: as a young pagan prince he fought his own brothers for the throne, and only later built churches and schools; history keeps both halves of a life.

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**Who acts:** Volodymyr, history · **What happens:** not be, fight, build, keep · **To what, where:** saint, start, own brothers, churches, halves

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols» of the history 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 (Volodymyr, history), 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:1
# text = Volodymyr was not a saint from the start: as a young pagan prince he fought his own brothers for the throne, and only later built churches and schools; history keeps both halves of a life.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Volodymyr	Volodymyr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	pagan	pagan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod
26	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
28	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
34	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	halves	half	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	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 | **not** **is a** | past | Volodymyr | a saint |  | the start |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fight** | past | Volodymyr | Volodymyr's own brothers |  |  |  | as a young pagan prince; for the throne | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **build** | past | Volodymyr *not said here* | churches and schools |  |  |  | late *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset church=Product |
| 4 | **keep** | present | history | both halves of a life |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=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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**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:1`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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