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title: Then came «the Ruin» of civil wars, Mazepa's switch to Sweden lost a… — The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate · tree and pragmatics
description: Then came «the Ruin» of civil wars, Mazepa's switch to Sweden lost at Poltava in 1709, Orlyk's constitution written in exile, and the empire ending the Sich in 1775 and the Hetmanate soon after; the Sich ended, but its memory still lives in songs, dances and the anthem. Who acts: Ruin », switch, emp
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# The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate, sentence 3

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Then came «the Ruin» of civil wars, Mazepa's switch to Sweden lost at Poltava in 1709, Orlyk's constitution written in exile, and the empire ending the Sich in 1775 and the Hetmanate soon after; the Sich ended, but its memory still lives in songs, dances and the anthem.

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**Who acts:** Ruin », switch, empire, Sich, memory, Orlyk · **What happens:** come, lose, write, end, live, constitute · **To what, where:** Poltava, constitution, exile, Sich, 1775, songs

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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 (Ruin », switch, empire, Sich), 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:3
# text = Then came «the Ruin» of civil wars, Mazepa's switch to Sweden lost at Poltava in 1709, Orlyk's constitution written in exile, and the empire ending the Sich in 1775 and the Hetmanate soon after; the Sich ended, but its memory still lives in songs, dances and the anthem.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
5	Ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	Mazepa	Mazepa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	switch	switch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Poltava	Poltava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1709	1709	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	Orlyk	Orlyk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
25	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
32	ending	end	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	acl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Sich	Sich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	1775	1775	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Hetmanate	hetmanate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
40	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	45	advmod	_	_
41	after	after	ADP	IN	_	40	fixed	_	_
42	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	Sich	Sich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	still	still	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	_
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	conj	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	anthem	anthem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	_
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **come** | past | Ruin » of civil wars and Mazepa's switch to Sweden and Orlyk's constitution and the empire |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | past | Mazepa's switch to Sweden *not said here* |  |  | Poltava |  | in 1709 | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent at poltava=Eventuality |
| 3 | **write** | participle |  | Orlyk's constitution *not said here* |  | exile |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in exile=Destination |
| 4 | **end** | gerund | the empire *not said here* | the Sich |  | 1775 and the Hetmanate |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sich=Eventuality |
| 5 | **end** | past | the Sich |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **live** | present | Sich's memory |  |  | songs and dances and the anthem | still |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in song=Location |
| 7 | **constitute** |  | Orlyk |  |  |  |  |  | nom constitution «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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, R6-punct-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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