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title: In 1569 the Union of Lublin joined Poland and Lithuania into the Com… — Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1569 the Union of Lublin joined Poland and Lithuania into the Commonwealth, and most Ukrainian lands passed to the Polish crown; many local nobles agreed for their own rights, while Orthodox peasants later faced heavier serfdom (being tied to a landowner's land and made to work for him). Who acts
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# Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks, sentence 6

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In 1569 the Union of Lublin joined Poland and Lithuania into the Commonwealth, and most Ukrainian lands passed to the Polish crown; many local nobles agreed for their own rights, while Orthodox peasants later faced heavier serfdom (being tied to a landowner's land and made to work for him).

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**Who acts:** Union, Orthodox peasants · **What happens:** join, pass, agree, face, tie, make · **To what, where:** Poland, 1569, Polish crown, many local nobles, heavier serfdom

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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 (Union, Orthodox peasants), 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:6
# text = In 1569 the Union of Lublin joined Poland and Lithuania into the Commonwealth, and most Ukrainian lands passed to the Polish crown; many local nobles agreed for their own rights, while Orthodox peasants later faced heavier serfdom (being tied to a landowner's land and made to work for him).
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1569	1569	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Lublin	Lublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Lithuania	Lithuania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
17	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Polish	polish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
28	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	Orthodox	orthodox	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
36	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	_
38	faced	face	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:parataxis
39	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
40	serfdom	serfdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
42	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	landowner	landowner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod:poss	_	_
47	's	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	_
55	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	50	punct	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **join** | past | the Union of Lublin | Poland and Lithuania |  | 1569 |  | into the Commonwealth and most Ukrainian lands and many local nobles | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent poland=Patient into commonwealth=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **pass** | past | the Union of Lublin *not said here* |  |  | the Polish crown |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to crown=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle |  | many local nobles *not said here* |  |  |  | for lands's own rights | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **face** | past | Orthodox peasants | heavier serfdom |  |  |  | late *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent serfdom=Destination |
| 5 | **tie** | gerund · passive |  | heavier serfdom *not said here* |  |  |  | to a landowner's land | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: to land=Co-Patient |
| 6 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **work** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for Lithuania | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=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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**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 ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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