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title: Serfs, farmers tied to a landlord's land, were freed in the Russian… — Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and chil… · tree and pragmatics
description: Serfs, farmers tied to a landlord's land, were freed in the Russian Empire, including much of Ukraine, only in 1861. A sentence of the lesson «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights, sentence 8

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Serfs, farmers tied to a landlord's land, were freed in the Russian Empire, including much of Ukraine, only in 1861.

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**What happens:** tie, free, include · **To what, where:** Serfs, Russian Empire

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.lesson:8
# text = Serfs, farmers tied to a landlord's land, were freed in the Russian Empire, including much of Ukraine, only in 1861.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Serfs	serf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	freed	free	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	case	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	1861	1861	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **tie** | participle |  | Serfs and farmers *not said here* |  |  |  | to a landlord's land | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to land=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **free** | past · passive |  | Serfs and farmers |  | the Russian Empire |  | include much Ukraine; in 1861 | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |
| 3 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: 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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**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:069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.lesson:8`.

**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): R8-pos-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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