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title: Prince Dmytro Vyshnevetsky, called Baida, built a fortress on the is… — Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Dmytro Vyshnevetsky, called Baida, built a fortress on the island of Mala Khortytsia around 1552–1556, often seen as a forerunner of the Zaporizhian Sich; the story of his death in Istanbul comes from a folk song. Who acts: Dmytro, story. A sentence of the lesson «Lithuanian and Polish times,
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# Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks, sentence 14

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Prince Dmytro Vyshnevetsky, called Baida, built a fortress on the island of Mala Khortytsia around 1552–1556, often seen as a forerunner of the Zaporizhian Sich; the story of his death in Istanbul comes from a folk song.

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**Who acts:** Dmytro, story · **What happens:** call, build, see, come, die · **To what, where:** Dmytro, fortress, island, folk song, Istanbul · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Dmytro, story), 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:14
# text = Prince Dmytro Vyshnevetsky, called Baida, built a fortress on the island of Mala Khortytsia around 1552–1556, often seen as a forerunner of the Zaporizhian Sich; the story of his death in Istanbul comes from a folk song.
# 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 ×2
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Dmytro	Dmytro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	Vyshnevetsky	Vyshnevetsky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	Baida	Baida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fortress	fortress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Mala	Mala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	Khortytsia	Khortytsia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	around	around	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1552	1552	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
19	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
20	1556	1556	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	forerunner	forerunner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Zaporizhian	Zaporizhian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	Sich	Sich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Istanbul	Istanbul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **call** | participle |  | Dmytro  Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **build** | past | Dmytro  Prince | a fortress |  | the island of Mala |  | around 1552 – 1556 | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fortress=Theme on island=Source |
| 3 | **see** | participle | Dmytro  Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a forerunner of the Zaporizhian; often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as forerunner=Attribute |
| 4 | **come** | present | the story of story's death in Istanbul |  |  | a folk song |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from song=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **die** |  | story |  |  | Istanbul |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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:043-lithuanian-and-polish-times-the-first-cossacks.lesson:14`.

**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 ×2. **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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