--- title: A legend says three brothers, Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv, and their sist… — Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus · tree and pragmatics description: A legend says three brothers, Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv, and their sister Lybid founded the city; it is a legend, like Romulus and Remus for Rome, but the river Lybid and two hills still carry their names. Who acts: legend, three brothers, river, brothers. 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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 (legend, three brothers, river, brothers), 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:4 # text = A legend says three brothers, Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv, and their sister Lybid founded the city; it is a legend, like Romulus and Remus for Rome, but the river Lybid and two hills still carry their names. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Kyi Kyi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Shchek Shchek PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Khoryv Khoryv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 Lybid Lybid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 17 founded found VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Romulus Romulus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:appos 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 Remus Remus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 36 Lybid Lybid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 40 still still ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 42 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a legend | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **found** | past | three brothers | the city | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | legend | a legend | | | | like Romulus for Rome and Remus | tree rules | | 4 | **carry** | present | the river and two hills | brothers's names | | | still | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | | 5 | **name** | | brothers *= brother* | | | | | | nom name «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. **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:4`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/41-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus/3/) - next →: [Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/41-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/41-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus/)