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title: Following the gradual loss of Ukraine's autonomy, Kyiv experienced g… — Kyiv · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the gradual loss of Ukraine's autonomy, Kyiv experienced growing Russification in the 19th century, by means of Russian migration, administrative actions, and social modernization. Who acts: Kyiv. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kyiv» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kyiv, sentence 96

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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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Following the gradual loss of Ukraine's autonomy, Kyiv experienced growing Russification in the 19th century, by means of Russian migration, administrative actions, and social modernization.

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**Who acts:** Kyiv · **What happens:** follow, experience, grow, mean · **To what, where:** Russification

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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 (Kyiv), 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:96
# text = Following the gradual loss of Ukraine's autonomy, Kyiv experienced growing Russification in the 19th century, by means of Russian migration, administrative actions, and social modernization.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	gradual	gradual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	autonomy	autonomy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	experienced	experience	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	Russification	Russification	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
17	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	administrative	administrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	actions	action	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	modernization	modernization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **experience** | past | Kyiv |  |  |  |  | follow the gradual loss of Ukraine's autonomy | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | Kyiv *not said here* | Russification |  |  | century |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location russification=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of Russian migration and administrative actions and social modernization | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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