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title: In 1892, the first electric tram line of the Russian Empire started… — Kyiv · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1892, the first electric tram line of the Russian Empire started running in Kyiv (the third in the world). Who acts: first electric tram line. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kyiv» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kyiv, sentence 102

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From Wikipedia, [«Kyiv»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In 1892, the first electric tram line of the Russian Empire started running in Kyiv (the third in the world).

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**Who acts:** first electric tram line · **What happens:** start, run · **To what, where:** 1892, Kyiv

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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 (first electric tram line), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Kyiv:102
# text = In 1892, the first electric tram line of the Russian Empire started running in Kyiv (the third in the world).
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1892	1892	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
6	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	tram	tram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	appos	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | the first electric tram line of the Russian Empire |  |  | 1892 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | the first electric tram line of the Russian Empire *not said here* |  |  | Kyiv |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kyiv=Trajectory |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Kyiv», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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