--- title: At Kruty in January 1918 a few hundred defenders, among them student… — The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor · tree and pragmatics description: At Kruty in January 1918 a few hundred defenders, among them student volunteers, fought a much larger Bolshevik force; many young men died, the advance was delayed only briefly, and the battle became a symbol of sacrifice. Who acts: few hundred defenders, many young men, battle. 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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 (few hundred defenders, many young men, battle), 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:6 # text = At Kruty in January 1918 a few hundred defenders, among them student volunteers, fought a much larger Bolshevik force; many young men died, the advance was delayed only briefly, and the battle became a symbol of sacrifice. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Kruty Kruty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 1918 1918 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 flat _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 defenders defender NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 among among ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod _ _ 13 student student NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 volunteers volunteer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 appos _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 16 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 much much ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 larger large ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ _ 20 Bolshevik Bolshevik PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 advance advance NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 delayed delay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 32 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 briefly briefly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 symbol symbol NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 xcomp _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 sacrifice sacrifice NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight** | past | a few hundred defenders among people | a larger Bolshevik force | | Kruty in January | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Co-Agent | | 2 | **die** | past | many young men | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **delay** | past · passive | | the advance | | | | briefly *property* | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: subject=Source | | 4 | **become** | past | the battle | a symbol of sacrifice | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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. 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