Russia, sentence 323

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 wields significant political influence across the geopolitically important South Caucasus and Central Asia, described in Russia as the "near abroad", while foreign political analysts have described the two regions as being part of Russia's "backyard".

Who acts: Russia · What happens: wield, describe, be · To what, where: significant political influence, important South Caucasus, Russia, foreign political analysts

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), 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 wields	nsubj
2	wields	wield	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	significant	significant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 influence	amod
4	political	political	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 influence	amod
5	influence	influence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wields	obj
6	across	across	ADP	_	11 Caucasus	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Caucasus	det
8	geopolitically	geopolitically	ADV	_	9 important	advmod
9	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Caucasus	amod
10	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Caucasus	compound
11	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wields	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Asia	cc
13	Central	Central	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Asia	flat
14	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Caucasus	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 described	punct
16	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 Caucasus	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Russia	case
18	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 described	obl
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 abroad	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 abroad	det
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 abroad	punct
22	near	near	ADV	_	23 abroad	advmod
23	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	16 described	advmod
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 abroad	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 described	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 described	mark
27	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 analysts	amod
28	political	political	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 analysts	amod
29	analysts	analyst	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 described	nsubj:pass
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 described	aux
31	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wields	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 regions	det
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 regions	nummod
34	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 described	obj
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 part	case
36	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 part	cop
37	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 described	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	42 backyard	case
39	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 backyard	nmod:poss
40	's	's	PART	_	39 Russia	case
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 backyard	punct
42	backyard	backyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 part	nmod
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 backyard	punct
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wields	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wield	present	Russia	significant political influence	the important South Caucasus and Central Asia		vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Theme
2	describe	participle		the important South Caucasus and Central Asia not said here	Russia	abroad property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	describe	present · perfect · passive		foreign political analysts		the two regions obj	tree rules
4	is	gerund				as part; of Russia's backyard	tree rules

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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Russia, sentence 323