Kyiv, sentence 18
From Wikipedia, «Kyiv», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and Ukrainian independence in 1991, during the country's transformation into a market economy and electoral democracy, Kyiv has continued to be Ukraine's largest and wealthiest city.
Who acts: Kyiv, Soviet Union, country · What happens: follow, continue, be, collapse, transform · To what, where: market economy
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kyiv». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kyiv, Soviet Union, country), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 collapse | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 collapse | det |
| 3 | collapse | collapse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 continued | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Union | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Union | det |
| 6 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Union | compound |
| 7 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 collapse | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 independence | cc |
| 9 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 independence | amod |
| 10 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Union | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1991 | case |
| 12 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 independence | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 transformation | punct |
| 14 | during | during | ADP | _ | 18 transformation | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 country | det |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 transformation | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 country | case |
| 18 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 collapse | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 economy | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 economy | det |
| 21 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 economy | compound |
| 22 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 transformation | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 democracy | cc |
| 24 | electoral | electoral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 democracy | amod |
| 25 | democracy | democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 economy | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 collapse | punct |
| 27 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 continued | nsubj |
| 28 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 continued | aux |
| 29 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 Ukraine | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 Ukraine | cop |
| 32 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 continued | obl |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 Ukraine | case |
| 34 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 continued | parataxis |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 city | cc |
| 36 | wealthiest | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 city | amod |
| 37 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 largest | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | continue | present · perfect | Kyiv | follow the collapse of the Soviet Union and Ukrainian independence in 1991 and the country's transformation into a market economy and electoral democracy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | 's Ukraine | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | collapse | the Soviet Union and Ukrainian independence in 1991 | nom collapse «state intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | transform | the country | a market economy and electoral democracy | nom transformation «event transitive»: poss=agent into=place |
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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