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title: When Catherine II came to power in 1762, the city's filth and the sm… — Moscow · tree and pragmatics
description: When Catherine II came to power in 1762, the city's filth and the smell of sewage were depicted by observers as a symptom of disorderly lifestyles of lower-class Russians recently arrived from the farms. Who acts: Catherine, observers, Russians, sewage. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moscow» with its de
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# Moscow, sentence 144

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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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When Catherine II came to power in 1762, the city's filth and the smell of sewage were depicted by observers as a symptom of disorderly lifestyles of lower-class Russians recently arrived from the farms.

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**Who acts:** Catherine, observers, Russians, sewage · **What happens:** come, depict, arrive, smell · **To what, where:** 1762, filth, disorderly lifestyles, farms

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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: who acts (Catherine, observers, Russians, sewage), 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:144
# text = When Catherine II came to power in 1762, the city's filth and the smell of sewage were depicted by observers as a symptom of disorderly lifestyles of lower-class Russians recently arrived from the farms.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1762	1762	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	filth	filth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	sewage	sewage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	depicted	depict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	observers	observer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	symptom	symptom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	disorderly	disorderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	lifestyles	lifestyle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	Russians	Russian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
34	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Catherine |  |  | 1762 |  | to power | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to power=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **depict** | past · passive | observers | the city's filth and the smell of sewage |  |  |  | as a symptom of disorderly lifestyles of lower class | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as symptom=Attribute |
| 3 | **arrive** | past | Russians | disorderly lifestyles of lower class *not said here* |  | the farms |  | recently *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **smell** |  | sewage |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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