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title: As members of the collective farms were sometimes not allowed to rec… — Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: As members of the collective farms were sometimes not allowed to receive any grain until unrealistic quotas were met, millions starved to death in a famine known as the Holodomor or the "Great Famine", which was recognised by some countries as an act of genocide perpetrated by Joseph Stalin and othe
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# Ukraine, sentence 133

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From Wikipedia, [«Ukraine»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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As members of the collective farms were sometimes not allowed to receive any grain until unrealistic quotas were met, millions starved to death in a famine known as the Holodomor or the "Great Famine", which was recognised by some countries as an act of genocide perpetrated by Joseph Stalin and other Soviet notables.

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**Who acts:** members, millions, countries, genocide · **What happens:** not allow, receive, meet, starve, know, recognise · **To what, where:** members, grain, unrealistic quotas, famine, genocide

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ukraine». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (members, millions, countries, genocide), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Ukraine:133
# text = As members of the collective farms were sometimes not allowed to receive any grain until unrealistic quotas were met, millions starved to death in a famine known as the Holodomor or the "Great Famine", which was recognised by some countries as an act of genocide perpetrated by Joseph Stalin and other Soviet notables.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	collective	collective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	unrealistic	unrealistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	quotas	quota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
21	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	starved	starve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Holodomor	Holodomor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	Famine	Famine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	44	det	_	_
44	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
45	as	as	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	genocide	genocide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
50	perpetrated	perpetrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	acl	_	_
51	by	by	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	Stalin	Stalin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
55	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
56	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	notables	notable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** | past · passive |  | members *not said here* |  |  |  | of the collective farms; sometimes *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **receive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | members *not said here* | any grain |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** | past · passive |  | unrealistic quotas |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **starve** | past | millions |  |  | a famine |  | as members; to death | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | participle |  | a famine *not said here* |  |  |  | as the Holodomor or the Great Famine | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as holodomor=Attribute |
| 6 | **recognise** | past · passive | some countries | a famine |  |  |  | as a act of genocide | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus as act=Attribute |
| 7 | **perpetrate** | participle |  | genocide *not said here* |  |  |  | by Joseph Stalin and other Soviet notables | tree rules |
| 8 | **act** |  | genocide |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Ukraine», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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