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title: Symon Petliura led the Ukrainian People's Republic's army and govern… — The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor · tree and pragmatics
description: Symon Petliura led the Ukrainian People's Republic's army and government in 1919–1920; in the civil war many forces carried out pogroms against Jews, including troops nominally (on paper) under his command, and historians still debate his responsibility. Who acts: Symon, many forces, historians, war
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# The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor, sentence 9

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Symon Petliura led the Ukrainian People's Republic's army and government in 1919–1920; in the civil war many forces carried out pogroms against Jews, including troops nominally (on paper) under his command, and historians still debate his responsibility.

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**Who acts:** Symon, many forces, historians, war · **What happens:** lead, carry out, debate, command · **To what, where:** army, 1919, pogroms, civil war, responsibility · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Symon, many forces, historians, war), 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:9
# text = Symon Petliura led the Ukrainian People's Republic's army and government in 1919–1920; in the civil war many forces carried out pogroms against Jews, including troops nominally (on paper) under his command, and historians still debate his responsibility.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Symon	Symon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Petliura	Petliura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	People	People	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1919	1919	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
15	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	1920	1920	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	pogroms	pogrom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	including	include	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	26	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj
32	nominally	nominally	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	_
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
37	under	under	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
43	still	still	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	debate	debate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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** | past | Symon | Ukrainian People's Republic's army and government |  | 1919  1920 |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme in 1919=Destination |
| 2 | **carry out** | past | many forces | pogroms |  | the civil war |  | against Jews; include troops; under war's command; nominally *property* | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pogrom=Eventuality |
| 3 | **debate** | present | historians | war's responsibility |  |  | still |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent responsibility=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **command** |  | war |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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