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title: In 1939 Hitler and Stalin secretly split eastern Europe between them… — Ukraine in the Second World War · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1939 Hitler and Stalin secretly split eastern Europe between them, and the Soviet Union took Galicia and Volhynia from Poland; the teacher used the old Soviet word «reunification», but Danylo's grandmother remembered arrests and deportations (people forced from their homes and sent far away), so 
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# Ukraine in the Second World War, sentence 0

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In 1939 Hitler and Stalin secretly split eastern Europe between them, and the Soviet Union took Galicia and Volhynia from Poland; the teacher used the old Soviet word «reunification», but Danylo's grandmother remembered arrests and deportations (people forced from their homes and sent far away), so for many families it was an occupation.

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**Who acts:** Hitler, Soviet Union, teacher, grandmother · **What happens:** split, take, use, remember, force, send · **To what, where:** eastern Europe, 1939, Galicia, Poland, old Soviet word, arrests

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine in the Second World War» 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 (Hitler, Soviet Union, teacher, grandmother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:047-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war.lesson:0
# text = In 1939 Hitler and Stalin secretly split eastern Europe between them, and the Soviet Union took Galicia and Volhynia from Poland; the teacher used the old Soviet word «reunification», but Danylo's grandmother remembered arrests and deportations (people forced from their homes and sent far away), so for many families it was an occupation.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 047-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1939	1939	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	Hitler	Hitler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Stalin	Stalin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
18	Galicia	Galicia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Volhynia	Volhynia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	«	«	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	reunification	reunification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:nmod
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	Danylo	Danylo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
40	arrests	arrest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	deportations	deportation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
43	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	44	punct	_	_
44	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:conj
45	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:conj
51	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	52	advmod	_	_
52	away	away	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
53	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
55	so	so	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
56	for	for	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obl	_	_
59	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
60	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
61	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **split** | past | Hitler and Stalin | eastern Europe |  | 1939 |  | between them *= they*; secretly *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent europe=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past | the Soviet Union | Galicia and Volhynia |  | Poland |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent galicia=Theme from poland=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **use** | past | the teacher | the old Soviet word |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 4 | **remember** | past | Danylo's grandmother | arrests and deportations |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent arrest=Theme |
| 5 | **force** | participle |  | people *not said here* |  | Hitler's homes |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **send** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | past | teacher | a occupation |  |  |  | for many families | 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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**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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