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title: In the western territories, the principalities of Halych and Volhyni… — Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: In the western territories, the principalities of Halych and Volhynia had arisen earlier, and were merged to form the Principality of Galicia–Volhynia. Who acts: principalities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ukraine» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ukraine, sentence 66

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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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In the western territories, the principalities of Halych and Volhynia had arisen earlier, and were merged to form the Principality of Galicia–Volhynia.

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**Who acts:** principalities · **What happens:** arise, merge, form · **To what, where:** western territories, Principality

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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 (principalities), 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:66
# text = In the western territories, the principalities of Halych and Volhynia had arisen earlier, and were merged to form the Principality of Galicia–Volhynia.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	principalities	principality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Halych	Halych	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Volhynia	Volhynia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	arisen	arise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	merged	merge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Principality	principality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Galicia	Galicia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Volhynia	Volhynia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past · perfect | the principalities of Halych and Volhynia |  |  | the western territories |  | early *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in territory=Location |
| 2 | **merge** | past · passive | the principalities of Halych and Volhynia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** | to-infinitive | the principalities of Halych and Volhynia *not said here* | the Principality of Galicia  Volhynia |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location principality=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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