--- title: The chronicle says Volodymyr heard envoys of Islam, Judaism and West… — Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols · tree and pragmatics description: The chronicle says Volodymyr heard envoys of Islam, Judaism and Western and Byzantine Christianity, and his envoys praised Constantinople's churches; the chronicle even jokes that he turned Islam down because it forbade drinking; the real reasons were mostly politics, trade and a marriage alliance w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the M…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/) / 6 # Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols, sentence 6 The chronicle says Volodymyr heard envoys of Islam, Judaism and Western and Byzantine Christianity, and his envoys praised Constantinople's churches; the chronicle even jokes that he turned Islam down because it forbade drinking; the real reasons were mostly politics, trade and a marriage alliance with Byzantium. **Who acts:** chronicle, Volodymyr, envoys, faith, real reasons · **What happens:** say, hear, praise, joke, turn down, forbid · **To what, where:** envoys, churches, Islam, drinking, politics · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (chronicle, Volodymyr, envoys, faith), 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:6 # text = The chronicle says Volodymyr heard envoys of Islam, Judaism and Western and Byzantine Christianity, and his envoys praised Constantinople's churches; the chronicle even jokes that he turned Islam down because it forbade drinking; the real reasons were mostly politics, trade and a marriage alliance with Byzantium. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 chronicle chronicle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Volodymyr Volodymyr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 envoys envoy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Islam Islam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Judaism Judaism PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 Western Western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 Byzantine Byzantine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 15 Christianity Christianity PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 envoys envoy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 praised praise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 Constantinople Constantinople PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 churches church NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 chronicle chronicle NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 even even ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 jokes joke VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 32 Islam Islam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 down down ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 34 because because SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 forbade forbid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 37 drinking drinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 44 punct _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 42 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 politics politics NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 3 ccomp _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 alliance alliance NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 51 with with ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 Byzantium Byzantium PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the chronicle | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **hear** | past | Volodymyr | envoys of Islam and Judaism | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer envoy=Stimulus | | 3 | **praise** | past | chronicle's envoys | Constantinople's churches | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Theme | | 4 | **joke** *speech: other* | present | the chronicle | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **turn down** | past | chronicle | Islam | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent islam=Theme | | 6 | **forbid** | past | faith | drinking | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer drinking=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | past | the real reasons | politics and trade and a marriage alliance with Byzantium | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | 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:6`. **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 ×3, 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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