Kyiv, sentence 211
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.
On the eve of World War I, the city's Jewish population was over 81,000.
Who acts: Jewish population · What happens: be · To what, where: 81,000, eve
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 (Jewish population), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 eve | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eve | det |
| 3 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 81,000 | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 War | case |
| 5 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 War | compound |
| 6 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 eve | nmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 War | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 eve | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 population | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 city | case |
| 12 | Jewish | Jewish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 population | amod |
| 13 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 81,000 | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 81,000 | cop |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 16 81,000 | advmod |
| 16 | 81,000 | 81,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 81,000 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the city's Jewish population | 81,000 | the eve of World War I | over property | 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.
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