Russia, sentence 329
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.
It has initiated military interventions in the post-Soviet states of Georgia and Ukraine, as well as in Syria during its prolonged civil war in a bid to increase its influence in the Middle East, and achieve its great power ambitions.
Who acts: support · What happens: initiate, prolong, increase, achieve, war, ambition · To what, where: support, post-Soviet states, influence, Middle East, great power ambitions, bid
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 (support), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 initiated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 initiated | aux |
| 3 | initiated | initiate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 interventions | amod |
| 5 | interventions | intervention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 initiated | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 states | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 states | det |
| 8 | post-Soviet | post-soviet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 states | amod |
| 9 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 initiated | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Georgia | case |
| 11 | Georgia | Georgia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 states | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Ukraine | cc |
| 13 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Georgia | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Syria | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 19 Syria | cc |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 as | fixed |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 as | fixed |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Syria | case |
| 19 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 initiated | obl |
| 20 | during | during | ADP | _ | 24 war | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 war | nmod:poss |
| 22 | prolonged | prolong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 war | amod |
| 23 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 war | amod |
| 24 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 initiated | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 bid | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bid | det |
| 27 | bid | bid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 war | nmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 increase | mark |
| 29 | increase | increase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 initiated | advcl |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 influence | nmod:poss |
| 31 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 increase | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 East | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 East | det |
| 34 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 East | compound |
| 35 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 increase | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 achieve | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 achieve | cc |
| 38 | achieve | achieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 increase | conj |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 ambitions | nmod:poss |
| 40 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 ambitions | amod |
| 41 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ambitions | compound |
| 42 | ambitions | ambition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 achieve | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 initiated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | initiate | present · perfect · passive | support | the post-Soviet states of Georgia and Ukraine | during support's prolonged civil war in a bid | in Syria; military interventions obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | prolong | participle | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | increase | to-infinitive | support's influence | the Middle East | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer influence=Patient | ||||
| 4 | achieve | infinitive | support's great power ambitions | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambition=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | war | support | a bid | nom war «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place | |||||
| 6 | ambition | support | nom ambition «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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