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title: According to the Primary Chronicle, the Rus' people initially consis… — Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the Primary Chronicle, the Rus' people initially consisted of Varangians from Scandinavia. Who acts: people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ukraine» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ukraine, sentence 54

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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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According to the Primary Chronicle, the Rus' people initially consisted of Varangians from Scandinavia.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** accord, consist · **To what, where:** Varangians, Scandinavia

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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 (people), 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:54
# text = According to the Primary Chronicle, the Rus' people initially consisted of Varangians from Scandinavia.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Primary	Primary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Chronicle	Chronicle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Rus	Rus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	initially	initially	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	consisted	consist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Varangians	Varangian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Scandinavia	Scandinavia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **consist** | past | the Rus's people | Varangians |  | Scandinavia |  | accord the Primary Chronicle; initially *property* | tree rules |

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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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