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title: During the early Iron Age certain tribes settled around Kyiv that pr… — Kyiv · tree and pragmatics
description: During the early Iron Age certain tribes settled around Kyiv that practiced land cultivation, husbandry and trading with the Scythians and ancient states of the northern Black Sea coast. Who acts: certain tribes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kyiv» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kyiv, sentence 32

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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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During the early Iron Age certain tribes settled around Kyiv that practiced land cultivation, husbandry and trading with the Scythians and ancient states of the northern Black Sea coast.

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**Who acts:** certain tribes · **What happens:** settle, practice · **To what, where:** certain tribes, Kyiv, land cultivation

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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 (certain tribes), 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:32
# text = During the early Iron Age certain tribes settled around Kyiv that practiced land cultivation, husbandry and trading with the Scythians and ancient states of the northern Black Sea coast.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	practiced	practice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cultivation	cultivation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	husbandry	husbandry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	trading	trading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Scythians	Scythian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** | participle |  | certain tribes during the early Iron Age *not said here* |  | Kyiv |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **practice** | past | certain tribes during the early Iron Age | land cultivation and husbandry and trading with the Scythians and ancient states of the northern Sea coast |  |  |  |  | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cultivation=Theme |

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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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