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title: From 1921 to 1991, the city formed part of the Ukrainian Soviet Soci… — Kyiv · tree and pragmatics
description: From 1921 to 1991, the city formed part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which became a founding republic of the Soviet Union in 1922. Who acts: city, part Republic. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kyiv» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kyiv, sentence 107

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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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From 1921 to 1991, the city formed part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which became a founding republic of the Soviet Union in 1922.

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**Who acts:** city, part Republic · **What happens:** form, become, found · **To what, where:** part Republic, 1921, founding republic, 1922

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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 (city, part Republic), 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:107
# text = From 1921 to 1991, the city formed part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which became a founding republic of the Soviet Union in 1922.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1921	1921	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Socialist	socialist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	founding	found	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	1922	1922	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past | the city | part Republic of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist |  | 1921 to 1991 |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent republic=Result from 1921=Material |
| 2 | **become** | past | part Republic of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist | a founding republic of the Soviet Union |  |  |  | in 1922 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1922=Result |
| 3 | **found** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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