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title: Cossack images such as the hopak dance, the forelock and the bulava… — The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate · tree and pragmatics
description: Cossack images such as the hopak dance, the forelock and the bulava mace are central in Ukrainian culture, and the anthem calls Ukrainians «of Cossack kin», though most Ukrainians descend from peasants and townspeople. Who acts: Cossack images, anthem, most Ukrainians. A sentence of the lesson «The 
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# The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate, sentence 15

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Cossack images such as the hopak dance, the forelock and the bulava mace are central in Ukrainian culture, and the anthem calls Ukrainians «of Cossack kin», though most Ukrainians descend from peasants and townspeople.

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**Who acts:** Cossack images, anthem, most Ukrainians · **What happens:** be, call, descend · **To what, where:** Ukrainian culture, Ukrainians · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Cossack images, anthem, most Ukrainians), 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:15
# text = Cossack images such as the hopak dance, the forelock and the bulava mace are central in Ukrainian culture, and the anthem calls Ukrainians «of Cossack kin», though most Ukrainians descend from peasants and townspeople.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
3	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	hopak	hopak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
7	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	forelock	forelock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	bulava	bulava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	mace	mace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	anthem	anthem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	Ukrainians	ukrainian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obj
26	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	34	amod	_	_
34	Ukrainians	ukrainian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	descend	descend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=37:cc
39	townspeople	townspeople	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **is** | present | Cossack images such the hopak dance |  |  | Ukrainian culture |  | central *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | present | the anthem |  | Ukrainians of Cossack kin |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ukrainian=Recipient |
| 3 | **descend** | present | most Ukrainians |  |  |  |  | from peasants and townspeople | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from peasant=Location |

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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:15`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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