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title: Many towns in Ukrainian lands, such as Lviv and later Kyiv, received… — Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks · tree and pragmatics
description: Many towns in Ukrainian lands, such as Lviv and later Kyiv, received Magdeburg rights, which let townspeople run their own courts and councils, though Orthodox residents were sometimes kept out. Who acts: Many towns, Magdeburg rights, townspeople. A sentence of the lesson «Lithuanian and Polish time
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# Lithuanian and Polish times, the first Cossacks, sentence 9

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Many towns in Ukrainian lands, such as Lviv and later Kyiv, received Magdeburg rights, which let townspeople run their own courts and councils, though Orthodox residents were sometimes kept out.

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**Who acts:** Many towns, Magdeburg rights, townspeople · **What happens:** receive, let, run, keep out · **To what, where:** Magdeburg rights, townspeople, own courts, Orthodox residents

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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 (Many towns, Magdeburg rights, townspeople), 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:9
# text = Many towns in Ukrainian lands, such as Lviv and later Kyiv, received Magdeburg rights, which let townspeople run their own courts and councils, though Orthodox residents were sometimes kept out.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	Lviv	Lviv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Magdeburg	Magdeburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	townspeople	townspeople	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	Orthodox	orthodox	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | Many towns in Ukrainian lands such Lviv and Kyiv | Magdeburg rights |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | past | Magdeburg rights | townspeople |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | infinitive | townspeople *not said here* | rights's own courts and councils |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme court=Trajectory |
| 4 | **keep out** | past · passive |  | Orthodox residents |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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 ×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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