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title: Moscow is the site of Saint Basil's Cathedral, with its elegant onio… — Moscow · tree and pragmatics
description: Moscow is the site of Saint Basil's Cathedral, with its elegant onion domes, as well as the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Seven Sisters. Who acts: Moscow. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moscow» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Moscow, sentence 276

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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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Moscow is the site of Saint Basil's Cathedral, with its elegant onion domes, as well as the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Seven Sisters.

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**Who acts:** Moscow · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** site

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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 (Moscow), 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:276
# text = Moscow is the site of Saint Basil's Cathedral, with its elegant onion domes, as well as the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Seven Sisters.
1	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Basil	Basil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	Cathedral	Cathedral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	onion	onion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	domes	dome	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	21	cc	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Cathedral	Cathedral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Savior	Savior	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Seven	Seven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Sisters	Sister	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Moscow | the site and architecture's elegant onion domes |  |  |  | of Saint Basil's Cathedral; architecture's elegant onion domes *conj* | tree rules |

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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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