---
title: The wise lesson: you can love Shevchenko without ranking him above S… — Two empires and Shevchenko · tree and pragmatics
description: The wise lesson: you can love Shevchenko without ranking him above Shakespeare, and use numbers you can check instead of family legends. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Two empires and Shevchenko» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/4/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Two empires and Shevchenko](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/) / 4

# Two empires and Shevchenko, sentence 4

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The wise lesson: you can love Shevchenko without ranking him above Shakespeare, and use numbers you can check instead of family legends.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** love, rank, use, check · **To what, where:** Shevchenko, Shakespeare, numbers

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (you), 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:4
# text = The wise lesson: you can love Shevchenko without ranking him above Shakespeare, and use numbers you can check instead of family legends.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
8	Shevchenko	Shevchenko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	ranking	rank	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	above	above	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Shakespeare	Shakespeare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
17	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advcl
21	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | can | you | Shevchenko |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shevchenko=Stimulus |
| 2 | **rank** | gerund | you *not said here* | Shevchenko |  | Shakespeare |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | infinitive | you *not said here* | numbers |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
| 4 | **check** | can | you | numbers *not said here* |  |  |  | instead family legends | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:4`.

**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, 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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Two empires and Shevchenko, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/3/)
- next →: [Two empires and Shevchenko, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/5/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/)