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title: In 1596, at the Union of Brest, some Orthodox bishops accepted the P… — Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1596, at the Union of Brest, some Orthodox bishops accepted the Pope while keeping their Eastern rites (their old ways of holding services), creating the Greek Catholic Church, strong in western Ukraine today; others refused, and both churches are Ukrainian. Who acts: Orthodox bishops, others, ch
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# Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks, sentence 10

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In 1596, at the Union of Brest, some Orthodox bishops accepted the Pope while keeping their Eastern rites (their old ways of holding services), creating the Greek Catholic Church, strong in western Ukraine today; others refused, and both churches are Ukrainian.

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**Who acts:** Orthodox bishops, others, churches · **What happens:** accept, keep, create, refuse, be · **To what, where:** Pope, 1596, Eastern rites, Greek Catholic Church

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks» 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 (Orthodox bishops, others, churches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:043-lithuanian-and-polish-times-the-first-cossacks.lesson:10
# text = In 1596, at the Union of Brest, some Orthodox bishops accepted the Pope while keeping their Eastern rites (their old ways of holding services), creating the Greek Catholic Church, strong in western Ukraine today; others refused, and both churches are Ukrainian.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 043-lithuanian-and-polish-times-the-first-cossacks.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1596	1596	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Brest	Brest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	Orthodox	orthodox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bishops	bishop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Pope	Pope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	rites	rite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	holding	holding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	creating	create	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	Catholic	catholic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
46	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	det	_	_
47	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
48	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
49	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	conj	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **accept** | past | some Orthodox bishops | the Pope |  | 1596 |  | at the Union of Brest | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pope=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund | some Orthodox bishops *not said here* | bishops's Eastern rites |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rite=Theme |
| 3 | **create** | gerund | some Orthodox bishops *not said here* | the Greek Catholic Church |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Result |
| 4 | **refuse** | past | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | both churches |  |  |  |  | ukrainian *property* | tree rules |

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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): 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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