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title: By the 1959 Soviet census, Kyiv was once more a Ukrainian majority c… — Kyiv · tree and pragmatics
description: By the 1959 Soviet census, Kyiv was once more a Ukrainian majority city, with 60% of the population identifying as such, the same percentage as in 1874. Who acts: Kyiv. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kyiv» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kyiv, sentence 197

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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 1959 Soviet census, Kyiv was once more a Ukrainian majority city, with 60% of the population identifying as such, the same percentage as in 1874.

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**Who acts:** Kyiv · **What happens:** be, identify · **To what, where:** Ukrainian majority city

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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), 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:197
# text = By the 1959 Soviet census, Kyiv was once more a Ukrainian majority city, with 60% of the population identifying as such, the same percentage as in 1874.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	1959	1959	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	census	census	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	identifying	identify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	percentage	percentage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	1874	1874	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Kyiv | a Ukrainian majority city |  |  |  | by the 1959 Soviet census; the same percentage as 1874 *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **identify** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as such | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as such=Attribute |

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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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