Russia, sentence 68

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 establishment of the first East Slavic states in the 9th century coincided with the arrival of the Varangians, Vikings who ventured along the waterways extending from the eastern Baltic to the Black and Caspian Seas.

Who acts: establishment, waterways, Varangians · What happens: coincide, venture, extend, establish, arrive · To what, where: 9th century, eastern Baltic Black Caspian Seas, first Slavic states

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 (establishment, waterways, Varangians), 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 establishment	det
2	establishment	establishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ventured	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 states	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 states	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 states	amod
6	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Slavic	compound
7	Slavic	Slavic	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 states	compound
8	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 establishment	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 century	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 century	det
11	9th	9th	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 century	amod
12	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 states	nmod
13	coincided	coincide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 century	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 arrival	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 arrival	det
16	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coincided	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Varangians	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Varangians	det
19	Varangians	Varangian	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 arrival	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Vikings	punct
21	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 ventured	nsubj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 ventured	nsubj
23	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	along	along	ADP	_	26 waterways	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 waterways	det
26	waterways	waterway	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ventured	obl
27	extending	extend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 waterways	acl
28	from	from	ADP	_	37 Seas	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Seas	det
30	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Seas	amod
31	Baltic	baltic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Seas	amod
32	to	to	ADP	_	37 Seas	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Seas	det
34	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Seas	amod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Seas	cc
36	Caspian	Caspian	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Seas	compound
37	Seas	Sea	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 extending	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 ventured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	coincide	participle		the 9th century not said here		with the arrival of the Varangians	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with arrival=Co-Patient
2	venture	past	the establishment of the first Slavic states in the 9th century			along the waterways; Vikings nsubj; who nsubj	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	extend	gerund	the waterways not said here		the eastern Baltic Black Caspian Seas		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	establish			the first Slavic states in the 9th century			nom establishment «act transitive»: of=patient
5	arrive		the Varangians				nom arrival «act 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.

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 68