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title: At the time of the Lithuanian rule, the core of the city was located… — Kyiv · tree and pragmatics
description: At the time of the Lithuanian rule, the core of the city was located in Podil and there was a Lithuanian Kyiv Castle with 18 towers on the Zamkova Hora which served as a residence of Vladimir Olgerdovich, Grand Prince of Kyiv, and subsequently of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania (e.g. Vytautas). Who act
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# Kyiv, sentence 81

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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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At the time of the Lithuanian rule, the core of the city was located in Podil and there was a Lithuanian Kyiv Castle with 18 towers on the Zamkova Hora which served as a residence of Vladimir Olgerdovich, Grand Prince of Kyiv, and subsequently of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania (e.g. Vytautas).

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**Who acts:** Zamkova Hora · **What happens:** locate, be, serve · **To what, where:** core, Podil, Lithuanian Kyiv Castle

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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 (Zamkova Hora), 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:81
# text = At the time of the Lithuanian rule, the core of the city was located in Podil and there was a Lithuanian Kyiv Castle with 18 towers on the Zamkova Hora which served as a residence of Vladimir Olgerdovich, Grand Prince of Kyiv, and subsequently of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania (e.g. Vytautas).
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Lithuanian	lithuanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	core	core	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Podil	Podil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Lithuanian	lithuanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Zamkova	Zamkova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Hora	hora	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Vladimir	Vladimir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	Olgerdovich	Olgerdovich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	Grand	Grand	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
47	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	Grand	Grand	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	Dukes	Duke	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	Lithuania	Lithuania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
54	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	e.g.	e.g.	ADV	FW	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	Vytautas	Vytautas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | past · passive |  | the core of the city |  | Podil | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a Lithuanian Kyiv Castle and the Grand Dukes of Lithuania |  |  |  | with 18 towers on the Zamkova Hora; the Grand Dukes of Lithuania *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **serve** | past | the Zamkova Hora |  |  |  |  | as a residence of Vladimir | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as residence=Attribute |

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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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