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title: The Mongol empire was destructive in its conquests, but afterwards i… — Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mongol empire was destructive in its conquests, but afterwards it kept trade routes safe, ran a postal system and allowed many religions. Who acts: Mongol empire, empire. A sentence of the lesson «Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols» of the history course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols, sentence 15

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The Mongol empire was destructive in its conquests, but afterwards it kept trade routes safe, ran a postal system and allowed many religions.

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**Who acts:** Mongol empire, empire · **What happens:** be, keep, run, allow · **To what, where:** conquests, trade routes, postal system, many religions

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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 (Mongol empire, empire), 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:15
# text = The Mongol empire was destructive in its conquests, but afterwards it kept trade routes safe, ran a postal system and allowed many religions.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Mongol	mongol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	destructive	destructive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	conquests	conquest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	routes	route	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	postal	postal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	religions	religion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Mongol empire |  |  | empire's conquests |  | destructive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | past | empire | trade routes |  |  |  | afterwards, safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent route=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | past | empire *not said here* | a postal system |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme system=Trajectory |
| 4 | **allow** | past | empire *not said here* | many religions |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Beneficiary |

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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:15`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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