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title: The Valuev circular (1863) and the Ems decree (1876) banned most pub… — Two empires and Shevchenko · tree and pragmatics
description: The Valuev circular (1863) and the Ems decree (1876) banned most publishing and stage performance in Ukrainian in the Russian Empire, calling it a dialect of Russian; people still spoke it at home and in villages. Who acts: Valuev circular, people. A sentence of the lesson «Two empires and Shevchenk
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# Two empires and Shevchenko, sentence 8

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The Valuev circular (1863) and the Ems decree (1876) banned most publishing and stage performance in Ukrainian in the Russian Empire, calling it a dialect of Russian; people still spoke it at home and in villages.

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**Who acts:** Valuev circular, people · **What happens:** ban, publish, call, speak · **To what, where:** performance, home · **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 (Valuev circular, people), 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:8
# text = The Valuev circular (1863) and the Ems decree (1876) banned most publishing and stage performance in Ukrainian in the Russian Empire, calling it a dialect of Russian; people still spoke it at home and in villages.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Valuev	Valuev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	circular	circular	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	1863	1863	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
9	Ems	Ems	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
12	1876	1876	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	banned	ban	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	publishing	publish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Russian	Russian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:nmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
35	still	still	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **ban** | past | the Valuev circular and the Ems decree |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **publish** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | gerund | the Valuev circular and the Ems decree *not said here* | performance |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | people | performance |  | home and villages | still |  | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/).

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