Russia, sentence 259
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.
Russia has over 100,000 rivers; the Volga in western Russia, which is widely regarded as the national river, is the longest river in Europe and forms the Volga Delta, the largest river delta in the continent.
Who acts: Russia, Volga · What happens: have over, regard, be, form · To what, where: 100,000 rivers, Volga, longest river, Europe, Volga Delta
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 (Russia, Volga), 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 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 100,000 | advmod |
| 4 | 100,000 | 100000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 rivers | nummod |
| 5 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 river | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Volga | det |
| 8 | Volga | Volga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 river | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Russia | case |
| 10 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Russia | amod |
| 11 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Volga | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 regarded | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 regarded | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 regarded | aux:pass |
| 15 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 16 regarded | advmod |
| 16 | regarded | regard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Volga | acl:relcl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 river | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 river | det |
| 19 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 river | amod |
| 20 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 regarded | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Volga | punct |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 river | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 river | det |
| 24 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 river | amod |
| 25 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 Europe | case |
| 27 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 river | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 forms | cc |
| 29 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Delta | det |
| 31 | Volga | Volga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Delta | compound |
| 32 | Delta | Delta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 forms | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 delta | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 delta | det |
| 35 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 delta | amod |
| 36 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 delta | compound |
| 37 | delta | delta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Delta | appos |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 continent | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 continent | det |
| 40 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 delta | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have over | present | Russia | 100,000 rivers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | ||||
| 2 | regard | present · passive | the Volga in western Russia | as the national river; widely property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme as river=Value | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the Volga in western Russia | the longest river | Europe | tree rules | |||
| 4 | form | present | Russia not said here | the Volga Delta | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location delta=Theme |
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, «Russia», 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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