Kyiv, sentence 32
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.
During the early Iron Age certain tribes settled around Kyiv that practiced land cultivation, husbandry and trading with the Scythians and ancient states of the northern Black Sea coast.
Who acts: certain tribes · What happens: settle, practice · To what, where: certain tribes, Kyiv, land cultivation
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 (certain tribes), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 5 Age | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Age | det |
| 3 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Age | amod |
| 4 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Age | compound |
| 5 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tribes | obl |
| 6 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tribes | amod |
| 7 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tribes | acl |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 Kyiv | case |
| 10 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 settled | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 practiced | nsubj |
| 12 | practiced | practice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tribes | acl:relcl |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cultivation | compound |
| 14 | cultivation | cultivation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 practiced | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 husbandry | punct |
| 16 | husbandry | husbandry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cultivation | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 trading | cc |
| 18 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cultivation | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 Scythians | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Scythians | det |
| 21 | Scythians | Scythian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 trading | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 states | cc |
| 23 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 states | amod |
| 24 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Scythians | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 coast | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 coast | det |
| 27 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 coast | amod |
| 28 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Sea | compound |
| 29 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 coast | compound |
| 30 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 states | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tribes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | participle | certain tribes during the early Iron Age not said here | Kyiv | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | practice | past | certain tribes during the early Iron Age | land cultivation and husbandry and trading with the Scythians and ancient states of the northern Sea coast | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cultivation=Theme |
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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