--- title: At Babyn Yar, a ravine in Kyiv, Nazi forces murdered about 33,771 Je… — Ukraine in the Second World War · tree and pragmatics description: At Babyn Yar, a ravine in Kyiv, Nazi forces murdered about 33,771 Jews in two days in September 1941, and tens of thousands more people were killed there later; it is first of all a place of the Holocaust, the Nazi murder of Europe's Jews, and today people come there quietly to remember. 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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 (Nazi forces, ravine, people), 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:2 # text = At Babyn Yar, a ravine in Kyiv, Nazi forces murdered about 33,771 Jews in two days in September 1941, and tens of thousands more people were killed there later; it is first of all a place of the Holocaust, the Nazi murder of Europe's Jews, and today people come there quietly to remember. # 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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Babyn Babyn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 3 Yar Yar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ravine ravine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Kyiv Kyiv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 10 Nazi Nazi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 forces force NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 murdered murder VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 14 33,771 33,771 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 15 Jews Jew PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:appos 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 21 1941 1941 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nmod:unmarked _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 24 tens ten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 amod _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 31 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod 32 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 36 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 40 advmod _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 40 det:predet _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 Holocaust Holocaust PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 Nazi Nazi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 47 murder murder NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 appos _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 49 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nmod:poss _ _ 50 's 's PART POS _ 49 case _ _ 51 Jews Jew PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 47 nmod _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 54 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=55:compound 55 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 nsubj _ _ 56 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 57 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 56 advmod _ _ 58 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 59 to to PART TO _ 60 mark _ _ 60 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 advcl _ _ 61 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **murder** | past | Nazi forces | 33,771 Jews | | Babyn | day; september | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jew=Patient | | 2 | **kill** | past · passive | | tens of thousands more people | | there | | late *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | ravine | | | | | of all place; of the Holocaust; first *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | present | people | | | there | today | quietly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **remember** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **murder** | | | Europe's Jews | | | | | nom murder «act transitive»: of=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:047-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war.lesson:2`. **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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Ukraine in the Second World War, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/1/) - next →: [Ukraine in the Second World War, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/)