Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus, sentence 10
Kyivan Rus was a large medieval state from the 9th to the 13th century, centred on Kyiv, covering lands of today's Ukraine, Belarus and part of Russia; historians call it the shared ancestor of all three.
Who acts: Kyivan, historians · What happens: be, centre, cover, call, share · To what, where: large medieval state, 9th, Kyiv, lands, part · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus» 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: who acts (Kyivan, historians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyivan | Kyivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 state | nsubj |
| 2 | Rus | Rus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kyivan | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 state | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 state | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 state | amod |
| 6 | medieval | medieval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 state | amod |
| 7 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 9th | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 9th | det |
| 10 | 9th | 9th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 7 state | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 century | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 century | det |
| 13 | 13th | 13th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 14 century | amod |
| 14 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 9th | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 state | punct |
| 16 | centred | centre | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 state | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 Kyiv | case |
| 18 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 centred | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 covering | punct |
| 20 | covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 centred | conj |
| 21 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 covering | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Ukraine | case |
| 23 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Ukraine | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 today | case |
| 25 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 lands | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Belarus | punct |
| 27 | Belarus | Belarus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Ukraine | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 part | cc |
| 29 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Ukraine | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Russia | case |
| 31 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 part | nmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 call | punct |
| 33 | historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 call | nsubj |
| 34 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 state | parataxis |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 call | obj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 ancestor | det |
| 37 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 ancestor | amod |
| 38 | ancestor | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 call | xcomp |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 three | case |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 three | det |
| 41 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 ancestor | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 state | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Kyivan | a large medieval state | the 9th to the 13th century | tree rules | |||
| 2 | centre | participle | a large medieval state not said here | Kyiv | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cover | gerund | lands of today's Ukraine and Belarus and part of Russia | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Destination | |||||
| 4 | call | present | historians | part | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | share | participle | tree rules |
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, 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:041-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
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