Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus, sentence 8

The legend of Kyi, Shchek, Khoryv and their sister Lybid was written down in the Primary Chronicle; the river Lybid and the hills Shchekavytsia and Khorevytsia carry their names, but nobody can prove they were real people.

Who acts: river, nobody · What happens: write down, carry, prove, be, name · To what, where: sister, Primary, names, real people

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 (river, nobody), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 legend	det
2	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Kyi	case
4	Kyi	Kyi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 legend	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Shchek	punct
6	Shchek	Shchek	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Kyi	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Khoryv	punct
8	Khoryv	Khoryv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Kyi	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 written	cc
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sister	nmod:poss
11	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 written	nsubj:pass
12	Lybid	Lybid	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sister	appos
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 written	aux:pass
14	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 legend	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 written	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 Primary	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Chronicle	det
18	Primary	Primary	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 written	obl
19	Chronicle	Chronicle	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Primary	flat
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 Lybid	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 river	det
22	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carry	nsubj
23	Lybid	Lybid	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 river	appos
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hills	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hills	det
26	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 river	conj
27	Shchekavytsia	Shchekavytsia	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 hills	appos
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Khorevytsia	cc
29	Khorevytsia	Khorevytsia	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Shchekavytsia	conj
30	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 legend	parataxis
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 names	nmod:poss
32	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 carry	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 prove	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 prove	cc
35	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	37 prove	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 prove	aux
37	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 legend	parataxis
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 people	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 people	cop
40	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 people	amod
41	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 prove	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 legend	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	write down	past · passive		Kyi's sister	Primary	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in primary=Destination
2	carry	present	the river and the hills	river's names		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
3	prove	can	nobody			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	river	real people		tree rules
5	name		river			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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.

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