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title: Catherine II destroyed the Zaporizhian Sich in 1775; some Cossacks w… — The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate · tree and pragmatics
description: Catherine II destroyed the Zaporizhian Sich in 1775; some Cossacks went to Ottoman lands (the Danube Sich), and others were later moved to the Kuban, where their descendants still live. Who acts: Catherine, Cossacks, descendants. A sentence of the lesson «The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate» of
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# The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate, sentence 13

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Catherine II destroyed the Zaporizhian Sich in 1775; some Cossacks went to Ottoman lands (the Danube Sich), and others were later moved to the Kuban, where their descendants still live.

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**Who acts:** Catherine, Cossacks, descendants · **What happens:** destroy, go, move, live · **To what, where:** Zaporizhian Sich, 1775, Ottoman lands, others

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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 (Catherine, Cossacks, descendants), 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:13
# text = Catherine II destroyed the Zaporizhian Sich in 1775; some Cossacks went to Ottoman lands (the Danube Sich), and others were later moved to the Kuban, where their descendants still live.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
3	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Zaporizhian	Zaporizhian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Sich	Sich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1775	1775	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	Cossacks	cossack	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Danube	Danube	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Sich	Sich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
26	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Kuban	Kuban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	descendants	descendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
34	still	still	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **destroy** | past | Catherine | the Zaporizhian Sich |  | 1775 |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sich=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past | some Cossacks |  |  | Ottoman lands |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **move** | past · passive |  | others |  |  |  | to the Kuban *result*; late *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme to kuban=Result |
| 4 | **live** | present | Cossacks's descendants |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:044-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate.lesson:13`.

**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 ×2, 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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