--- title: Mykola (Nikolai) Gogol was born in Ukraine and wrote stories about U… — Two empires and Shevchenko · tree and pragmatics description: Mykola (Nikolai) Gogol was born in Ukraine and wrote stories about Ukrainian life, but he wrote in Russian and lived in St Petersburg and Rome, so both cultures claim him. Who acts: Ukraine, cultures. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ukraine, cultures), 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:12 # text = Mykola (Nikolai) Gogol was born in Ukraine and wrote stories about Ukrainian life, but he wrote in Russian and lived in St Petersburg and Rome, so both cultures claim him. # 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 ×2 1 Mykola Mykola PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 3 punct _ _ 3 Nikolai Nikolai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 3 punct _ _ 5 Gogol Gogol PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 about about ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 Ukrainian Ukrainian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ _ 26 Petersburg Petersburg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 cultures culture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 claim claim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | past · passive | | Mykola and Nikolai | | Ukraine | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **write** | past | | stories | | | | about Ukrainian life | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about life=Topic | | 3 | **write** | past | Ukraine | | | Russian | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in russian=Destination | | 4 | **live** | past | Ukraine *not said here* | | | St Petersburg and Rome | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in petersburg=Location | | 5 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | both cultures | Ukraine | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | 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:045-two-empires-and-shevchenko.lesson:12`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Two empires and Shevchenko, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/11/) - next →: [Two empires and Shevchenko, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/)