Moscow, sentence 295

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.

While the later Stalinist period was characterized by the curtailing of creativity and architectural innovation, the earlier post-revolutionary years saw a plethora of radical new buildings created in the city.

Who acts: curtailing, earlier post-revolutionary years · What happens: characterize, see, create · To what, where: later Stalinist period, plethora, radical new buildings, city

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 (curtailing, earlier post-revolutionary years), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	7 characterized	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 period	det
3	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 period	amod
4	Stalinist	Stalinist	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 period	compound
5	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 characterized	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 characterized	aux:pass
7	characterized	characterize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 curtailing	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 curtailing	det
10	curtailing	curtailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 characterized	obl:agent
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 creativity	case
12	creativity	creativity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 curtailing	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 innovation	cc
14	architectural	architectural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 innovation	amod
15	innovation	innovation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 curtailing	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 years	det
18	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 years	amod
19	post-revolutionary	post-revolutionary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 years	amod
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 characterized	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 plethora	det
23	plethora	plethora	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 buildings	case
25	radical	radical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 buildings	amod
26	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 buildings	amod
27	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 plethora	nmod
28	created	create	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 buildings	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 city	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 city	det
31	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 created	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 characterized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	characterize	past · passive	the curtailing of creativity and architectural innovation	the later Stalinist period		vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	see	past	the earlier post-revolutionary years	a plethora of radical new buildings		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plethora=Stimulus
3	create	participle		radical new buildings not said here	the city	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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 295