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title: In the early 17th century Cossacks in light boats called chaiky raid… — The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate · tree and pragmatics
description: In the early 17th century Cossacks in light boats called chaiky raided Ottoman Black Sea towns such as Sinop and even the outskirts of Istanbul, but they did not capture the city. Who acts: light boats, Cossacks. A sentence of the lesson «The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate» of the history cour
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# The Cossacks, the Sich and the Hetmanate, sentence 7

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In the early 17th century Cossacks in light boats called chaiky raided Ottoman Black Sea towns such as Sinop and even the outskirts of Istanbul, but they did not capture the city.

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**Who acts:** light boats, Cossacks · **What happens:** call, raid, not capture · **To what, where:** chaiky, Ottoman Sea towns, city · **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 (light boats, Cossacks), 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:7
# text = In the early 17th century Cossacks in light boats called chaiky raided Ottoman Black Sea towns such as Sinop and even the outskirts of Istanbul, but they did not capture the city.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	17th	17th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound
5	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
6	Cossacks	cossack	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	chaiky	chaiky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj
12	raided	raid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Ottoman	Ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
14	Black	Black	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	Sinop	Sinop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Istanbul	Istanbul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	capture	capture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **call** | participle | light boats *not said here* | chaiky |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **raid** | past | Cossacks in light boats | Ottoman Sea towns and the outskirts of Istanbul |  |  | century | such Sinop | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent town=Location |
| 3 | **not** **capture** | past · do-support | Cossacks *= cossack* | the city |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=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:7`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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