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title: The three names appear in the Kyiv Chronicle as Kyi, Shchek, and Kho… — Kyiv · tree and pragmatics
description: The three names appear in the Kyiv Chronicle as Kyi, Shchek, and Khoryv and may be not of Slavic origin, as Russian historians have always struggled to account for their meanings and origins. Who acts: three names, Russian historians, historians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kyiv» with its dependency 
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# Kyiv, sentence 61

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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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The three names appear in the Kyiv Chronicle as Kyi, Shchek, and Khoryv and may be not of Slavic origin, as Russian historians have always struggled to account for their meanings and origins.

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**Who acts:** three names, Russian historians, historians · **What happens:** appear, not be, struggle, mean · **To what, where:** Khoryv, Kyiv Chronicle, account

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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 (three names, Russian historians, 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:61
# text = The three names appear in the Kyiv Chronicle as Kyi, Shchek, and Khoryv and may be not of Slavic origin, as Russian historians have always struggled to account for their meanings and origins.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Chronicle	Chronicle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Kyi	Kyi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Shchek	Shchek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Khoryv	Khoryv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Slavic	slavic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	29	advmod	_	_
29	struggled	struggle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	xcomp	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	meanings	meaning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	origins	origin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | the three names | Khoryv and Slavic origin |  | the Kyiv Chronicle as Kyi and Shchek |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chronicle=Location |
| 2 | **not** **is** | may | the three names *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Slavic origin | tree rules |
| 3 | **struggle** | present · perfect | Russian historians | account |  |  |  | for historians's meanings and origins; always *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** |  | historians *= historian* |  |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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