Kyiv, sentence 69
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.
Between 1146 and 1246 the city changed hands 47 times, being ruled by 24 princes, and in 35 cases their tenure lasted less than a year.
Who acts: city, 24 princes, 35 cases · What happens: change, rule, last · To what, where: hands, less
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 (city, 24 princes, 35 cases), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 2 1146 | case |
| 2 | 1146 | 1146 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 changed | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 1246 | cc |
| 4 | 1246 | 1246 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1146 | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | nsubj |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 changed | obj |
| 9 | 47 | 47 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 times | nummod |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hands | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ruled | punct |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 ruled | aux:pass |
| 13 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 changed | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 princes | case |
| 15 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 princes | nummod |
| 16 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ruled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lasted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lasted | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 cases | case |
| 20 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 cases | nummod |
| 21 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 lasted | nsubj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 tenure | nmod:poss |
| 23 | tenure | tenure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cases | nmod |
| 24 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 changed | conj |
| 25 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 lasted | obj |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 year | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 year | det |
| 28 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 less | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | the city | hands and 47 times | between 1146 | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 2 | rule | gerund · passive | 24 princes | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | last | past | 35 cases princes's tenure | less than a year | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme less=Value |
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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