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title: After Yaroslav his heirs quarrelled and Rus broke into rival princed… — Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols · tree and pragmatics
description: After Yaroslav his heirs quarrelled and Rus broke into rival princedoms, and in 1240 the Mongols took Kyiv; the teacher said it was «wiped off the map», but Kyiv survived as a smaller town, and in the west the kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia carried on. Who acts: heirs, Rus, Mongols, teacher. A sentence
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# Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols, sentence 3

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After Yaroslav his heirs quarrelled and Rus broke into rival princedoms, and in 1240 the Mongols took Kyiv; the teacher said it was «wiped off the map», but Kyiv survived as a smaller town, and in the west the kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia carried on.

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**Who acts:** heirs, Rus, Mongols, teacher, Kyiv, kingdom · **What happens:** quarrel, break, take, say, wipe off, survive · **To what, where:** rival princedoms, Kyiv, 1240, teacher, west · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (heirs, Rus, Mongols, teacher), 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:3
# text = After Yaroslav his heirs quarrelled and Rus broke into rival princedoms, and in 1240 the Mongols took Kyiv; the teacher said it was «wiped off the map», but Kyiv survived as a smaller town, and in the west the kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia carried on.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Yaroslav	Yaroslav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	heirs	heir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	quarrelled	quarrel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Rus	Rus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	rival	rival	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	princedoms	princedom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1240	1240	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
27	wiped	wipe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	survived	survive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	amod	_	_
39	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=46:punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=35:cc
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:det
44	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Galicia	Galicia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
50	Volhynia	Volhynia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	flat	_	_
51	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
52	on	on	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quarrel** | past | Yaroslav's heirs |  |  |  | after Yaroslav |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **break** | past | Rus |  |  |  |  | into rival princedoms *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into princedom=Result |
| 3 | **take** | past | the Mongols | Kyiv |  | 1240 |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent kyiv=Value in 1240=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the teacher |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **wipe off** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | teacher |  |  |  | off the map | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme map=Destination |
| 6 | **survive** | past | Kyiv |  |  |  |  | as a smaller town | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **carry on** | past | the kingdom of Galicia | the west |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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