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title: From 1941 to 1944 Nazi Germany occupied Ukraine; millions of soldier… — Ukraine in the Second World War · tree and pragmatics
description: From 1941 to 1944 Nazi Germany occupied Ukraine; millions of soldiers and civilians died, cities lay in ruins, and over two million people were taken to Germany as forced labourers, called Ostarbeiter, «eastern workers». Who acts: Nazi Germany, millions, cities. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine in 
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# Ukraine in the Second World War, sentence 1

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From 1941 to 1944 Nazi Germany occupied Ukraine; millions of soldiers and civilians died, cities lay in ruins, and over two million people were taken to Germany as forced labourers, called Ostarbeiter, «eastern workers».

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**Who acts:** Nazi Germany, millions, cities · **What happens:** occupy, die, lay, take, force, call · **To what, where:** Ukraine, 1941, ruins, million people, Germany, forced labourers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Nazi Germany, millions, cities), 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:1
# text = From 1941 to 1944 Nazi Germany occupied Ukraine; millions of soldiers and civilians died, cities lay in ruins, and over two million people were taken to Germany as forced labourers, called Ostarbeiter, «eastern workers».
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1941	1941	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1944	1944	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	Nazi	Nazi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
10	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	civilians	civilian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	over	over	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	compound	_	_
25	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	labourers	labourer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
36	Ostarbeiter	Ostarbeiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	xcomp	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	_
39	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
41	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15: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 | **occupy** | past | Nazi Germany | Ukraine |  | 1941 to 1944 |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ukraine=Experiencer |
| 2 | **die** | past | millions of soldiers and civilians |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **lay** | present | cities |  |  | ruins |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ruin=Destination |
| 4 | **take** | past · passive |  | million people | Germany |  |  | as forced labourers and eastern workers | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to germany=Destination |
| 5 | **force** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **call** | participle |  | forced labourers and eastern workers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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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