--- title: The Zaporizhian Sich below the Dnipro rapids was a Cossack stronghol… — The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate · tree and pragmatics description: The Zaporizhian Sich below the Dnipro rapids was a Cossack stronghold where the council (rada) elected and could remove its leaders; only Cossack men had a voice, women were not allowed in, and Athens and Iceland's Althing had assemblies much earlier. Who acts: Zaporizhian Sich, Cossack men, Athens. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate/) / 5 # The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate, sentence 5 The Zaporizhian Sich below the Dnipro rapids was a Cossack stronghold where the council (rada) elected and could remove its leaders; only Cossack men had a voice, women were not allowed in, and Athens and Iceland's Althing had assemblies much earlier. **Who acts:** Zaporizhian Sich, Cossack men, Athens · **What happens:** be, elect, remove, have, not allow · **To what, where:** Cossack stronghold, council, leaders, voice, women, assemblies 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 (Zaporizhian Sich, Cossack men, Athens), 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:5 # text = The Zaporizhian Sich below the Dnipro rapids was a Cossack stronghold where the council (rada) elected and could remove its leaders; only Cossack men had a voice, women were not allowed in, and Athens and Iceland's Althing had assemblies much earlier. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Zaporizhian Zaporizhian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Sich Sich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 below below ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Dnipro Dnipro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 rapids rapid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Cossack cossack NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 stronghold stronghold NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 parataxis _ _ 12 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 18 advmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 16 rada rada NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 18 elected elect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 remove remove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 leaders leader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 Cossack cossack NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 36 in in ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 Athens Athens PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 Iceland Iceland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 's 's PART POS _ 41 case _ _ 43 Althing Althing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 44 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 45 assemblies assembly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 46 much much ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 earlier early ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 44 advmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=44:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the Zaporizhian Sich below the Dnipro rapids | a Cossack stronghold | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **elect** | past · passive | | the council | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **remove** | could | | Sich's leaders | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | Cossack men | a voice | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | | 5 | **not** **allow** | past · passive | | women | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | | 6 | **have** | past | Athens and Iceland's Althing | assemblies | | | | early *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assembly=Patient | 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. **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:5`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate/3/) - next →: [The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/44-the-cossacks-the-sich-and-the-hetmanate/)