Russia, sentence 221
From Wikipedia, «Russia», 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.
From the time Chechen separatists declared independence in the early 1990s, an intermittent guerrilla war was fought between the rebel groups and Russian forces.
Who acts: Chechen separatists · What happens: declare, fight · To what, where: independence, early 1990s, intermittent guerrilla war
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Russia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chechen separatists), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 declared | obl |
| 4 | Chechen | Chechen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 separatists | compound |
| 5 | separatists | separatist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 declared | nsubj |
| 6 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 declared | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1990s | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 1990s | det |
| 10 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 1990s | amod |
| 11 | 1990s | 1990s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 6 declared | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fought | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 war | det |
| 14 | intermittent | intermittent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 war | amod |
| 15 | guerrilla | guerrilla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 war | compound |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fought | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fought | aux:pass |
| 18 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 declared | conj |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 22 groups | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 groups | det |
| 21 | rebel | rebel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 groups | compound |
| 22 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fought | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 forces | cc |
| 24 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 forces | amod |
| 25 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 groups | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | Chechen separatists | independence | the early 1990s | time | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute | ||
| 2 | fight | past · passive | a intermittent guerrilla war | between the rebel groups and Russian forces | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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.
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