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title: After the Russian revolution of 1917 the Central Rada in Kyiv, led b… — The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor · tree and pragmatics
description: After the Russian revolution of 1917 the Central Rada in Kyiv, led by Mykhailo Hrushevsky, proclaimed the Ukrainian People's Republic in November 1917 and full independence on 22 January 1918, though the country was split and many forces fought over it. Who acts: Central Rada, many forces. A sentenc
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# The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor, sentence 5

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After the Russian revolution of 1917 the Central Rada in Kyiv, led by Mykhailo Hrushevsky, proclaimed the Ukrainian People's Republic in November 1917 and full independence on 22 January 1918, though the country was split and many forces fought over it.

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**Who acts:** Central Rada, many forces · **What happens:** lead, proclaim, split, fight · **To what, where:** Central Rada, Republic, 22, country

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor» 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 (Central Rada, many forces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:046-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor.lesson:5
# text = After the Russian revolution of 1917 the Central Rada in Kyiv, led by Mykhailo Hrushevsky, proclaimed the Ukrainian People's Republic in November 1917 and full independence on 22 January 1918, though the country was split and many forces fought over it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 046-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor.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): no change
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	revolution	revolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1917	1917	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Central	Central	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Rada	Rada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Mykhailo	Mykhailo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl:agent	_	_
16	Hrushevsky	Hrushevsky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
18	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	People	People	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	1917	1917	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
32	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:unmarked	_	_
33	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	flat	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
44	over	over	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **lead** | participle |  | the Central Rada in Kyiv *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **proclaim** | past | the Central Rada in Kyiv | the Ukrainian People's Republic and full independence |  | 22  January | after the Russian revolution of 1917; november |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republic=Theme |
| 3 | **split** | past · passive |  | the country |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **fight** | past | many forces |  |  |  |  | over country | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over it=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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**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): no change. **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.

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