--- title: The Ukrainian parliament declared independence on 24 August 1991, af… — Chornobyl and independence in 1991 · tree and pragmatics description: The Ukrainian parliament declared independence on 24 August 1991, after a failed coup (an attempt to seize power) in Moscow; in the referendum of 1 December 1991 over 90% voted for independence, with majorities in every region, including Crimea. Who acts: Ukrainian parliament. 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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 (Ukrainian parliament), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:048-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991.lesson:10 # text = The Ukrainian parliament declared independence on 24 August 1991, after a failed coup (an attempt to seize power) in Moscow; in the referendum of 1 December 1991 over 90% voted for independence, with majorities in every region, including Crimea. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 048-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991.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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Ukrainian Ukrainian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 parliament parliament NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 independence independence NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 August August PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 1991 1991 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 flat _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 after after ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 failed fail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 coup coup NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 attempt attempt NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 seize seize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl _ _ 20 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Moscow Moscow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 referendum referendum NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 1991 1991 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 flat _ _ 32 over over ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 voted vote VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 independence independence NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 majorities majority NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 43 det _ _ 43 region region NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 including include ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 Crimea Crimea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the Ukrainian parliament | independence | | | after a failed coup; august | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute | | 2 | **fail** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **seize** | to-infinitive | the Ukrainian parliament *not said here* | power | | Moscow | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme | | 4 | **vote** | past | | | | the referendum of 1 December | | for independence *goal*; with majorities in every region and Crimea | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for independence=Goal | 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:048-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991.lesson:10`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Chornobyl and independence in 1991, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/48-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991/9/) - next →: [Chornobyl and independence in 1991, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/48-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/48-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991/)