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title: This layout, as well as Moscow's rivers, helped shape Moscow's desig… — Moscow · tree and pragmatics
description: This layout, as well as Moscow's rivers, helped shape Moscow's design in subsequent centuries. Who acts: layout, Moscow. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moscow» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Moscow, sentence 279

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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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This layout, as well as Moscow's rivers, helped shape Moscow's design in subsequent centuries.

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**Who acts:** layout, Moscow · **What happens:** help, shape, design · **To what, where:** design

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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 (layout, 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:279
# text = This layout, as well as Moscow's rivers, helped shape Moscow's design in subsequent centuries.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	layout	layout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	9	cc	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	shape	shape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
13	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past | this layout as Moscow's rivers |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **shape** | infinitive | this layout as Moscow's rivers *not said here* | Moscow's design |  |  | century |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset design=Product |
| 3 | **design** |  | Moscow |  |  |  |  |  | nom design «act transitive»: 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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