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title: By the September 1917 city-census of Kyiv, conducted by the authorit… — Kyiv · tree and pragmatics
description: By the September 1917 city-census of Kyiv, conducted by the authorities of the Ukrainian People's Republic, the Ukrainian share of the population had been reduced to only 16%, while Russians now made up a majority at 50%. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kyiv» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kyiv, sentence 193

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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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By the September 1917 city-census of Kyiv, conducted by the authorities of the Ukrainian People's Republic, the Ukrainian share of the population had been reduced to only 16%, while Russians now made up a majority at 50%.

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**What happens:** conduct, reduce, make up, census · **To what, where:** September city census, Ukrainian share, Russians, 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: 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:193
# text = By the September 1917 city-census of Kyiv, conducted by the authorities of the Ukrainian People's Republic, the Ukrainian share of the population had been reduced to only 16%, while Russians now made up a majority at 50%.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
4	1917	1917	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	census	census	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:agent	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	amod	_	_
18	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	reduced	reduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	Russians	Russian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
39	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | participle |  | the September city census of Kyiv *not said here* |  |  |  | the authorities of the Ukrainian People's Republic *obl:agent* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reduce** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Ukrainian share *not said here* |  |  |  | of the population | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_ING»: to %=Goal |
| 3 | **make up** | participle · passive |  | Russians |  |  | now | a majority *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **census** |  |  | Kyiv |  |  |  |  | nom census «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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