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title: Odesa was founded in 1794 by the Russian Empire on the site of an ol… — Two empires and Shevchenko · tree and pragmatics
description: Odesa was founded in 1794 by the Russian Empire on the site of an older Ottoman settlement, Khadzhibey, and grew as a port with Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, Greeks, Bulgarians, Italians and others. Who acts: Russian Empire. A sentence of the lesson «Two empires and Shevchenko» of the history course o
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# Two empires and Shevchenko, sentence 11

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Odesa was founded in 1794 by the Russian Empire on the site of an older Ottoman settlement, Khadzhibey, and grew as a port with Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, Greeks, Bulgarians, Italians and others.

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**Who acts:** Russian Empire · **What happens:** found, grow · **To what, where:** Odesa, 1794

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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 (Russian Empire), 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:11
# text = Odesa was founded in 1794 by the Russian Empire on the site of an older Ottoman settlement, Khadzhibey, and grew as a port with Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, Greeks, Bulgarians, Italians and others.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Odesa	Odesa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1794	1794	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:amod
16	Ottoman	Ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
17	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Khadzhibey	Khadzhibey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Ukrainians	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Russians	Russian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Bulgarians	Bulgarian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Italians	Italian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=37:conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **found** | past · passive | the Russian Empire | Odesa |  | 1794 |  | on the site of a older Ottoman settlement | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on site=Source |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the Russian Empire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a port; with Ukrainians and Russians and Jews and Greeks and Bulgarians and Italians and others | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:045-two-empires-and-shevchenko.lesson:11`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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/).

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