Russia, sentence 66
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.
Prior to Slavic migration, that territory was populated by Finno-Ugrian peoples.
Who acts: Finno Ugrian peoples · What happens: populate · To what, where: territory
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 (Finno Ugrian peoples), 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 | Prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 4 migration | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 Prior | fixed |
| 3 | Slavic | slavic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 migration | amod |
| 4 | migration | migration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 populated | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 migration | punct |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 territory | det |
| 7 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 populated | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 populated | aux:pass |
| 9 | populated | populate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 peoples | case |
| 11 | Finno | Finno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 peoples | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Finno | punct |
| 13 | Ugrian | ugrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 peoples | amod |
| 14 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 populated | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 populated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | populate | past · passive | Finno Ugrian peoples | that territory | prior Slavic migration | 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.
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