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title: Princess Olha ruled Kyiv as regent (ruling for her young son) after… — Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus · tree and pragmatics
description: Princess Olha ruled Kyiv as regent (ruling for her young son) after her husband Ihor was killed in 945; she reformed tax collection and was the first ruler of Rus to be baptised; the story of her burning a town with pigeons is a chronicle legend. Who acts: Olha, story. A sentence of the lesson «Kyiv
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# Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus, sentence 12

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Princess Olha ruled Kyiv as regent (ruling for her young son) after her husband Ihor was killed in 945; she reformed tax collection and was the first ruler of Rus to be baptised; the story of her burning a town with pigeons is a chronicle legend.

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**Who acts:** Olha, story · **What happens:** rule, kill, reform, be, baptise, burn · **To what, where:** Kyiv, husband, 945, tax collection, first ruler, town

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Olha, story), 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:12
# text = Princess Olha ruled Kyiv as regent (ruling for her young son) after her husband Ihor was killed in 945; she reformed tax collection and was the first ruler of Rus to be baptised; the story of her burning a town with pigeons is a chronicle legend.
# 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
1	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Olha	Olha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	regent	regent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ruling	rule	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
14	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	Ihor	Ihor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	945	945	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	reformed	reform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	_
31	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Rus	Rus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	baptised	baptise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
40	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	acl	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	chronicle	chronicle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | Olha  Princess | Kyiv |  |  |  | as regent | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent kyiv=Result |
| 2 | **rule** | gerund | Olha  Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Olha's young son | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kill** | past · passive |  | Olha's husband |  | 945 |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **reform** | past | Olha | tax collection |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent collection=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Olha *not said here* | the first ruler |  |  |  | of Rus | tree rules |
| 6 | **baptise** | to-infinitive · passive | Olha *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **burn** | gerund | the story *not said here* | a town |  |  |  | with pigeons | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent town=Patient with pigeon=Instrument |
| 8 | **is a** | present | the story | a chronicle legend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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. **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.

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