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title: In 1959, Nikita Khrushchev launched his anti-religious campaign. — Moscow · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1959, Nikita Khrushchev launched his anti-religious campaign. Who acts: Nikita. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moscow» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Moscow, sentence 173

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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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In 1959, Nikita Khrushchev launched his anti-religious campaign.

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**Who acts:** Nikita · **What happens:** launch, campaign · **To what, where:** anti-religious campaign, 1959

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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 (Nikita), 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:173
# text = In 1959, Nikita Khrushchev launched his anti-religious campaign.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1959	1959	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Nikita	Nikita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Khrushchev	Khrushchev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	anti-religious	anti-religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **launch** | past | Nikita | Nikita's anti-religious campaign |  | 1959 |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent campaign=Theme in 1959=Destination |
| 2 | **campaign** |  | Nikita |  |  |  |  |  | nom campaign «event intransitive»: poss=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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