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title: The name Rus first meant the ruling group, then the lands around Kyi… — Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus · tree and pragmatics
description: The name Rus first meant the ruling group, then the lands around Kyiv, then the whole state; the names Russia and Ruthenia both grew from it, and people in Ukrainian lands called themselves Rusyny for centuries. Who acts: name, names, people. A sentence of the lesson «Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Ru
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# Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus, sentence 16

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The name Rus first meant the ruling group, then the lands around Kyiv, then the whole state; the names Russia and Ruthenia both grew from it, and people in Ukrainian lands called themselves Rusyny for centuries.

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**Who acts:** name, names, people · **What happens:** mean, grow, call · **To what, where:** ruling group, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (name, names, people), 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:16
# text = The name Rus first meant the ruling group, then the lands around Kyiv, then the whole state; the names Russia and Ruthenia both grew from it, and people in Ukrainian lands called themselves Rusyny for centuries.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Rus	Rus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
5	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	ruling	ruling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
13	around	around	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
23	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Ruthenia	Ruthenia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	both	both	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
37	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obj	_	_
38	Rusyny	Rusyny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	xcomp	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | past | the name | the ruling group |  |  |  | first *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Topic |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the names |  |  |  |  | from state; both *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from it=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | past | people in Ukrainian lands | people |  |  | century |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient |

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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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**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:16`.

**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/).

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