Kyiv, sentence 61
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.
The three names appear in the Kyiv Chronicle as Kyi, Shchek, and Khoryv and may be not of Slavic origin, as Russian historians have always struggled to account for their meanings and origins.
Who acts: three names, Russian historians, historians · What happens: appear, not be, struggle, mean · To what, where: Khoryv, Kyiv Chronicle, account
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 (three names, Russian historians, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 names | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 names | nummod |
| 3 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appear | nsubj |
| 4 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Chronicle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Chronicle | det |
| 7 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Chronicle | compound |
| 8 | Chronicle | Chronicle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 appear | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 Kyi | case |
| 10 | Kyi | Kyi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Chronicle | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Shchek | punct |
| 12 | Shchek | Shchek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Chronicle | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Khoryv | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Khoryv | cc |
| 15 | Khoryv | Khoryv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 appear | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 origin | cc |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 origin | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 origin | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 origin | advmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 origin | case |
| 21 | Slavic | slavic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 origin | amod |
| 22 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Khoryv | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 struggled | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 struggled | mark |
| 25 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 historians | amod |
| 26 | historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 struggled | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 struggled | aux |
| 28 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 29 struggled | advmod |
| 29 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 appear | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 account | mark |
| 31 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 struggled | xcomp |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 meanings | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 meanings | nmod:poss |
| 34 | meanings | meaning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 struggled | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 origins | cc |
| 36 | origins | origin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 meanings | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | the three names | Khoryv and Slavic origin | the Kyiv Chronicle as Kyi and Shchek | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chronicle=Location | |||
| 2 | not is | may | the three names not said here | of Slavic origin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | struggle | present · perfect | Russian historians | account | for historians's meanings and origins; always property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | mean | historians = historian | nom meaning «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.
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