Moscow, sentence 144

From Wikipedia, «Moscow», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

When Catherine II came to power in 1762, the city's filth and the smell of sewage were depicted by observers as a symptom of disorderly lifestyles of lower-class Russians recently arrived from the farms.

Who acts: Catherine, observers, Russians, sewage · What happens: come, depict, arrive, smell · To what, where: 1762, filth, disorderly lifestyles, farms

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Moscow». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catherine, observers, Russians, sewage), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
3	II	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	2 Catherine	flat
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 depicted	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 power	case
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1762	case
8	1762	1762	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 city	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 filth	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 city	case
13	filth	filth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 depicted	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 smell	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 smell	det
16	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 filth	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 sewage	case
18	sewage	sewage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 smell	nmod
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 depicted	aux:pass
20	depicted	depict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 observers	case
22	observers	observer	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 depicted	obl
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 symptom	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 symptom	det
25	symptom	symptom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 depicted	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 lifestyles	case
27	disorderly	disorderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lifestyles	amod
28	lifestyles	lifestyle	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 symptom	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 class	case
30	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 class	amod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 lower	punct
32	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lifestyles	nmod
33	Russians	Russian	PROPN	Number=Plur	35 arrived	nsubj
34	recently	recently	ADV	_	35 arrived	advmod
35	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 lifestyles	acl:relcl
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 farms	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 farms	det
38	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 arrived	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 depicted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Catherine		1762	to power	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to power=Initial_Location
2	depict	past · passive	observers	the city's filth and the smell of sewage		as a symptom of disorderly lifestyles of lower class	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as symptom=Attribute
3	arrive	past	Russians	disorderly lifestyles of lower class not said here	the farms	recently property	tree rules
4	smell		sewage				nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Moscow», 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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Moscow, sentence 144