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title: Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and Ukrainian independenc… — Kyiv · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and Ukrainian independence in 1991, during the country's transformation into a market economy and electoral democracy, Kyiv has continued to be Ukraine's largest and wealthiest city. Who acts: Kyiv, Soviet Union, country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kyiv» wi
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# Kyiv, sentence 18

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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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Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and Ukrainian independence in 1991, during the country's transformation into a market economy and electoral democracy, Kyiv has continued to be Ukraine's largest and wealthiest city.

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**Who acts:** Kyiv, Soviet Union, country · **What happens:** follow, continue, be, collapse, transform · **To what, where:** market economy

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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 (Kyiv, Soviet Union, country), 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:18
# text = Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and Ukrainian independence in 1991, during the country's transformation into a market economy and electoral democracy, Kyiv has continued to be Ukraine's largest and wealthiest city.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	collapse	collapse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	during	during	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	transformation	transformation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	electoral	electoral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
27	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
32	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	parataxis	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	wealthiest	wealthy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	37	amod	_	_
37	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **continue** | present · perfect | Kyiv |  |  |  |  | follow the collapse of the Soviet Union and Ukrainian independence in 1991 and the country's transformation into a market economy and electoral democracy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | 's Ukraine | tree rules |
| 4 | **collapse** |  | the Soviet Union and Ukrainian independence in 1991 |  |  |  |  |  | nom collapse «state intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **transform** |  | the country |  |  | a market economy and electoral democracy |  |  | nom transformation «event transitive»: poss=agent into=place |

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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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