--- title: Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861) was born a serf, was bought out of serf… — Two empires and Shevchenko · tree and pragmatics description: Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861) was born a serf, was bought out of serfdom in 1838 with the help of artists, and became Ukraine's national poet and a painter; his «Kobzar» (1840) is a founding book of modern Ukrainian literature. Who acts: Kobzar. 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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 (Kobzar), 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:6 # text = Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861) was born a serf, was bought out of serfdom in 1838 with the help of artists, and became Ukraine's national poet and a painter; his «Kobzar» (1840) is a founding book of modern Ukrainian literature. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Taras Taras PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 2 Shevchenko Shevchenko PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 4 1814 1814 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 appos _ _ 5 – – SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 6 punct _ _ 6 1861 1861 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nmod _ _ 7 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 serf serf NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 bought buy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 15 out out ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 serfdom serfdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 1838 1838 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 artists artist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 28 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 poet poet NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 xcomp _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 painter painter NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:nmod:poss 37 « « PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 38 Kobzar Kobzar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 39 » » PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 flat _ _ 40 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 41 1840 1840 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 nmod:unmarked _ _ 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 founding found VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 46 amod _ _ 46 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 49 Ukrainian Ukrainian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 literature literature NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | | Taras Shevchenko | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **buy out** | past · passive | | serfdom | | 1838 | | with the help of artists | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: serfdom=Theme | | 3 | **become** | past | | Ukraine's national poet and a painter | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **found** | gerund | | | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | Shevchenko's Kobzar 1840 | a founding book | | | | of modern Ukrainian literature | tree rules | | 6 | **help** | | | artists | | | | | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient | 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:6`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Two empires and Shevchenko, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/5/) - next →: [Two empires and Shevchenko, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/45-two-empires-and-shevchenko/)