Russia, sentence 64
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.
The ancestors of Russians are among the Slavic tribes that separated from the Proto-Indo-Europeans, who appeared in the northeastern part of Europe c. 1500 years ago.
Who acts: ancestors, Slavic tribes · What happens: be, separate, appear · To what, where: northeastern part
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 (ancestors, Slavic tribes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ancestors | det |
| 2 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tribes | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Russians | case |
| 4 | Russians | Russian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 ancestors | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tribes | cop |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 tribes | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tribes | det |
| 8 | Slavic | slavic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tribes | amod |
| 9 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 separated | nsubj |
| 11 | separated | separate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tribes | acl:relcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Europeans | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Europeans | det |
| 14 | Proto | Proto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Europeans | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Proto | punct |
| 16 | Indo | Indo | X | _ | 18 Europeans | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Indo | punct |
| 18 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 separated | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 appeared | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 appeared | nsubj |
| 21 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tribes | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 part | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 part | det |
| 24 | northeastern | northeastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 part | amod |
| 25 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 appeared | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Europe | case |
| 27 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 part | nmod |
| 28 | c. | c. | SYM | _ | 29 1500 | case |
| 29 | 1500 | 1500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 years | nummod |
| 30 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 21 appeared | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tribes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the ancestors of Russians | among the Slavic tribes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | separate | past | the Slavic tribes | from the Proto Europeans | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from european=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | the Slavic tribes | the northeastern part of Europe | ago property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location |
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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