Kyiv, sentence 44
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 Ptolemy world map there are several settlements indicated along the mid-stream of Borysthenes, among which is Azagarium, which some historians believe to be the predecessor to Kyiv.
Who acts: several settlements, historians · What happens: be, indicate, believe · To what, where: Ptolemy world map, several settlements, Azagarium, predecessor, Kyiv · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (several settlements, historians), 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 | _ | 5 map | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 map | det |
| 3 | Ptolemy | Ptolemy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 map | compound |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 map | compound |
| 5 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 are | obl |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 are | expl |
| 7 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 settlements | amod |
| 9 | settlements | settlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 are | nsubj |
| 10 | indicated | indicate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 settlements | acl |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 13 mid-stream | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mid-stream | det |
| 13 | mid-stream | mid-stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 indicated | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Borysthenes | case |
| 15 | Borysthenes | Borysthenes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mid-stream | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Azagarium | punct |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 Azagarium | obl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Azagarium | cop |
| 20 | Azagarium | Azagarium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 settlements | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 believe | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 believe | obj |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 historians | det |
| 24 | historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 believe | nsubj |
| 25 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 settlements | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 predecessor | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 predecessor | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 predecessor | det |
| 29 | predecessor | predecessor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 believe | ccomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Kyiv | case |
| 31 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 predecessor | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | several settlements and Azagarium | the Ptolemy world map; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on map=Location | ||||
| 2 | indicate | participle | several settlements and Azagarium not said here | along the mid-stream of Borysthenes | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | several settlements and Azagarium not said here | Azagarium | among several settlements and Azagarium | tree rules | |||
| 4 | believe | present | some historians | several settlements and Azagarium | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | the predecessor | Kyiv | 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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