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title: On the Ptolemy world map there are several settlements indicated alo… — Kyiv · tree and pragmatics
description: On the Ptolemy world map there are several settlements indicated along the mid-stream of Borysthenes, among which is Azagarium, which some historians believe to be the predecessor to Kyiv. Who acts: several settlements, historians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kyiv» with its dependency tree and pragma
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# Kyiv, sentence 44

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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 the Ptolemy world map there are several settlements indicated along the mid-stream of Borysthenes, among which is Azagarium, which some historians believe to be the predecessor to Kyiv.

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**Who acts:** several settlements, historians · **What happens:** be, indicate, believe · **To what, where:** Ptolemy world map, several settlements, Azagarium, predecessor, Kyiv · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (several settlements, historians), 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:44
# text = On the Ptolemy world map there are several settlements indicated along the mid-stream of Borysthenes, among which is Azagarium, which some historians believe to be the predecessor to Kyiv.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Ptolemy	Ptolemy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	settlements	settlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
10	indicated	indicate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	along	along	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mid-stream	mid-stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Borysthenes	Borysthenes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	Azagarium	Azagarium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	predecessor	predecessor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | several settlements and Azagarium |  |  | the Ptolemy world map; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on map=Location |
| 2 | **indicate** | participle |  | several settlements and Azagarium *not said here* |  |  |  | along the mid-stream of Borysthenes | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **is a** | present | several settlements and Azagarium *not said here* | Azagarium |  |  |  | among several settlements and Azagarium | tree rules |
| 4 | **believe** | present | some historians | several settlements and Azagarium |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the predecessor | Kyiv |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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