--- title: Kyivan Rus was a large medieval state from the 9th to the 13th centu… — Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus · tree and pragmatics description: Kyivan Rus was a large medieval state from the 9th to the 13th century, centred on Kyiv, covering lands of today's Ukraine, Belarus and part of Russia; historians call it the shared ancestor of all three. Who acts: Kyivan, historians. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kyivan, historians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:041-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus.lesson:10 # text = Kyivan Rus was a large medieval state from the 9th to the 13th century, centred on Kyiv, covering lands of today's Ukraine, Belarus and part of Russia; historians call it the shared ancestor of all three. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 041-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Kyivan Kyivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 Rus Rus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 medieval medieval ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 9th 9th NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 7 nmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 13th 13th ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 14 amod _ _ 14 century century NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 16 centred centre VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Kyiv Kyiv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 covering cover VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 conj _ _ 21 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Belarus Belarus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 33 historians historian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ _ 38 ancestor ancestor NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 xcomp _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 41 det _ _ 41 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Kyivan | a large medieval state | | the 9th to the 13th century | | | tree rules | | 2 | **centre** | participle | | a large medieval state *not said here* | | Kyiv | | | tree rules | | 3 | **cover** | gerund | | lands of today's Ukraine and Belarus and part of Russia | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Destination | | 4 | **call** | present | historians | part | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 5 | **share** | participle | | | | | | | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:041-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus.lesson:10`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/41-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus/8/) - next →: [Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/41-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/41-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus/)