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title: In the 1800s Ukrainian lands were split between two empires: most in… — Two empires and Shevchenko · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 1800s Ukrainian lands were split between two empires: most in the Russian Empire, and Galicia, Bukovyna and Transcarpathia in the Austrian one; Danylo thought only Russia ever ruled Ukraine, and was surprised, because in Austrian Galicia Ukrainian schools and newspapers could grow, like a pla
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# Two empires and Shevchenko, sentence 0

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In the 1800s Ukrainian lands were split between two empires: most in the Russian Empire, and Galicia, Bukovyna and Transcarpathia in the Austrian one; Danylo thought only Russia ever ruled Ukraine, and was surprised, because in Austrian Galicia Ukrainian schools and newspapers could grow, like a plant that does better on the sunny side of the fence.

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**Who acts:** Danylo, Russia, Galicia schools, plant · **What happens:** split, think, rule, be, grow, do · **To what, where:** Ukrainian lands, 1800s, Ukraine, sunny side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Two empires and Shevchenko» 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 (Danylo, Russia, Galicia schools, plant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:045-two-empires-and-shevchenko.lesson:0
# text = In the 1800s Ukrainian lands were split between two empires: most in the Russian Empire, and Galicia, Bukovyna and Transcarpathia in the Austrian one; Danylo thought only Russia ever ruled Ukraine, and was surprised, because in Austrian Galicia Ukrainian schools and newspapers could grow, like a plant that does better on the sunny side of the fence.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 045-two-empires-and-shevchenko.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1800s	1800	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
4	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	empires	empire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Galicia	Galicia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Bukovyna	Bukovyna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nmod:unmarked
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Transcarpathia	Transcarpathia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Austrian	austrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	Danylo	Danylo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:advmod
32	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	34	advmod	_	_
34	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
35	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	Austrian	austrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:amod
44	Galicia	Galicia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
45	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	flat	_	_
46	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=50:obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
49	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	advcl	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	like	like	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj	_	_
56	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	acl:relcl	_	_
57	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	56	advmod	_	_
58	on	on	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=57:obl
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	_
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **split** | past · passive |  | Ukrainian lands |  | the 1800s |  | between two empires  most in the Russian Empire  Galicia in the Austrian one and Bukovyna and Transcarpathia | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Danylo |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **rule** | past | Russia | Ukraine |  |  | ever |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent ukraine=Result |
| 4 | **is** | past | Danylo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow** | could | Galicia schools and newspapers |  |  |  |  | like a plant | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | present | a plant |  |  | the sunny side of the fence |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 ×3, R7-rel-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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