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title: Kyiv is Ukraine's capital and largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Ode… — Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: Kyiv is Ukraine's capital and largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Odesa, and Dnipro. Who acts: Kyiv. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ukraine» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ukraine, sentence 4

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From Wikipedia, [«Ukraine»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine), 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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Kyiv is Ukraine's capital and largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Odesa, and Dnipro.

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**Who acts:** Kyiv · **What happens:** be, follow · **To what, where:** capital

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ukraine». 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:Ukraine:4
# text = Kyiv is Ukraine's capital and largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Odesa, and Dnipro.
1	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Kharkiv	Kharkiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Odesa	Odesa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Dnipro	Dnipro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Kyiv | Ukraine's capital and largest city |  |  |  | Ukraine *nmod:poss*; largest city *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Kharkiv and Odesa and Dnipro *obl:agent* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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, «Ukraine», 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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