Russia, sentence 295
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.
This pattern of a centralised ruling system has its roots in the late Middle Ages, with a unified Russian state being established as an absolute monarchy in the late 15th century, a governance structure that was followed until the early 20th century.
Who acts: pattern, centralised ruling system · What happens: centralis, have, establish, follow, pattern · To what, where: roots, late Middle Ages, unified Russian state, governance structure
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 (pattern, centralised ruling system), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 pattern | det |
| 2 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 system | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 system | det |
| 5 | centralised | centralis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 system | amod |
| 6 | ruling | ruling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 system | compound |
| 7 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pattern | nmod |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 roots | nmod:poss |
| 10 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 has | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Ages | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Ages | det |
| 13 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Ages | amod |
| 14 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ages | flat |
| 15 | Ages | Age | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 roots | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 state | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 state | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 state | det |
| 19 | unified | unified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 state | amod |
| 20 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 state | amod |
| 21 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roots | conj |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 established | aux:pass |
| 23 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 state | acl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 monarchy | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 monarchy | det |
| 26 | absolute | absolute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 monarchy | amod |
| 27 | monarchy | monarchy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 established | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 century | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 century | det |
| 30 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 century | amod |
| 31 | 15th | 15th | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 century | amod |
| 32 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 established | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 structure | punct |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 structure | det |
| 35 | governance | governance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 structure | compound |
| 36 | structure | structure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roots | conj |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 followed | aux:pass |
| 39 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 structure | acl:relcl |
| 40 | until | until | ADP | _ | 44 century | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 century | det |
| 42 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 century | amod |
| 43 | 20th | 20th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 44 century | amod |
| 44 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 followed | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | centralis | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | this pattern of a centralised ruling system | pattern's roots and a unified Russian state and a governance structure | in the late Middle Ages | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient | |||
| 3 | establish | gerund · passive | a unified Russian state not said here | century | as a absolute monarchy | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP» | |||
| 4 | follow | past · passive | a governance structure | century | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pattern | a centralised ruling system | nom pattern «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.
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