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title: After losing the status as capital, the population at first decrease… — Moscow · tree and pragmatics
description: After losing the status as capital, the population at first decreased, from 200,000 in the 17th century to 130,000 in 1750. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moscow» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Moscow, sentence 111

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From Wikipedia, [«Moscow»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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After losing the status as capital, the population at first decreased, from 200,000 in the 17th century to 130,000 in 1750.

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**What happens:** lose, decrease · **To what, where:** status, 200,000

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Moscow». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Moscow:111
# text = After losing the status as capital, the population at first decreased, from 200,000 in the 17th century to 130,000 in 1750.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	_
12	decreased	decrease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	200,000	200000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	17th	17th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	130,000	130,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1750	1750	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | gerund |  | the status |  |  |  | as capital | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent status=Eventuality |
| 2 | **decrease** | participle |  |  |  | 200,000 in the 17th century to 130,000 in 1750 |  | first *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Moscow», 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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