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title: In 1648 Bohdan Khmelnytsky led a huge uprising and built a Cossack s… — The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1648 Bohdan Khmelnytsky led a huge uprising and built a Cossack state, the Hetmanate; it is a hero's story with dark pages too, because the war brought terrible massacres of Jewish communities, and honest history names both. Who acts: Bohdan, state, war. A sentence of the lesson «The Cossacks, th
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# The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate, sentence 1

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In 1648 Bohdan Khmelnytsky led a huge uprising and built a Cossack state, the Hetmanate; it is a hero's story with dark pages too, because the war brought terrible massacres of Jewish communities, and honest history names both.

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**Who acts:** Bohdan, state, war · **What happens:** lead, build, be, bring, name, massacre · **To what, where:** huge uprising, 1648, Cossack state, story, terrible massacres, Jewish communities

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate» 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 (Bohdan, state, war), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:044-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate.lesson:1
# text = In 1648 Bohdan Khmelnytsky led a huge uprising and built a Cossack state, the Hetmanate; it is a hero's story with dark pages too, because the war brought terrible massacres of Jewish communities, and honest history names both.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 044-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1648	1648	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	Bohdan	Bohdan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Khmelnytsky	Khmelnytsky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	uprising	uprising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Hetmanate	hetmanate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det
21	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	too	too	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
33	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	massacres	massacre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:nsubj
42	names	name	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
43	both	both	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **lead** | past | Bohdan | a huge uprising |  | 1648 |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent uprising=Theme in 1648=Destination |
| 2 | **build** | past | Bohdan *not said here* | a Cossack state |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset state=Product |
| 3 | **is a** | present | state | a hero's story |  |  |  | with dark pages | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | past | the war | terrible massacres of Jewish communities |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent massacre=Theme |
| 5 | **name** | present | the war *not said here* |  |  |  |  | both *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **massacre** |  |  | Jewish communities |  |  |  |  | nom massacre «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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, 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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