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title: The words of ShchedrYk tell of a swallow flying in to promise the fa… — Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: The words of ShchedrYk tell of a swallow flying in to promise the family a rich and happy year. Who acts: words, swallow. A sentence of the lesson «Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays» of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays, sentence 6

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The words of ShchedrYk tell of a swallow flying in to promise the family a rich and happy year.

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**Who acts:** words, swallow · **What happens:** tell, fly in, promise, word · **To what, where:** family, ShchedrYk · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays» of the ukrainian street 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 (words, swallow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:028-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays.lesson:6
# text = The words of ShchedrYk tell of a swallow flying in to promise the family a rich and happy year.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 028-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays.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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ShchedrYk	ShchedrYk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	iobj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the words of ShchedrYk |  |  |  |  | of a swallow | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fly in** | gerund | a swallow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | to-infinitive | a swallow *not said here* |  | the family |  | year |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent family=Theme |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | ShchedrYk |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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): no change. **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.

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