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title: On 29 and 30 September 1941, nearly 34,000 Kyivan Jews were massacre… — Kyiv · tree and pragmatics
description: On 29 and 30 September 1941, nearly 34,000 Kyivan Jews were massacred at Babi Yar by the Wehrmacht, SS, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, and local collaborators. Who acts: Babi. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kyiv» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kyiv, sentence 213

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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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On 29 and 30 September 1941, nearly 34,000 Kyivan Jews were massacred at Babi Yar by the Wehrmacht, SS, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, and local collaborators.

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**Who acts:** Babi · **What happens:** massacre · **To what, where:** 34,000 Kyivan Jews, 29

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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 (Babi), 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:213
# text = On 29 and 30 September 1941, nearly 34,000 Kyivan Jews were massacred at Babi Yar by the Wehrmacht, SS, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, and local collaborators.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	1941	1941	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	34,000	34,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	Kyivan	Kyivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	massacred	massacre	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Babi	Babi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl:agent	_	_
16	Yar	Yar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Wehrmacht	Wehrmacht	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	SS	ss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Auxiliary	Auxiliary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
25	Police	Police	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	collaborators	collaborator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **massacre** | past · passive | Babi | 34,000 Kyivan Jews |  | 29 |  | by the Wehrmacht and Ukrainian Auxiliary; local collaborators *obl* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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