---
title: By 1000 CE the city had a population of 45,000. — Kyiv · tree and pragmatics
description: By 1000 CE the city had a population of 45,000. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kyiv» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kyiv/65/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Kyiv](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kyiv/) / 65

# Kyiv, sentence 65

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
By 1000 CE the city had a population of 45,000.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** population

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (city), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:65
# text = By 1000 CE the city had a population of 45,000.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	CE	CE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	45,000	45,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the city | a population of 45,000 |  |  |  | by 1000  CE | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kyiv/64/)
- next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kyiv/66/)
- ↑ back to [Kyiv](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Kyiv/)