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title: While the later Stalinist period was characterized by the curtailing… — Moscow · tree and pragmatics
description: While the later Stalinist period was characterized by the curtailing of creativity and architectural innovation, the earlier post-revolutionary years saw a plethora of radical new buildings created in the city. Who acts: curtailing, earlier post-revolutionary years. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moscow
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# Moscow, sentence 295

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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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While the later Stalinist period was characterized by the curtailing of creativity and architectural innovation, the earlier post-revolutionary years saw a plethora of radical new buildings created in the city.

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**Who acts:** curtailing, earlier post-revolutionary years · **What happens:** characterize, see, create · **To what, where:** later Stalinist period, plethora, radical new buildings, city

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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 (curtailing, earlier post-revolutionary years), 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:295
# text = While the later Stalinist period was characterized by the curtailing of creativity and architectural innovation, the earlier post-revolutionary years saw a plethora of radical new buildings created in the city.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
4	Stalinist	Stalinist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	characterized	characterize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	curtailing	curtailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	creativity	creativity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	architectural	architectural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	innovation	innovation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
19	post-revolutionary	post-revolutionary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	plethora	plethora	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	radical	radical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
28	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **characterize** | past · passive | the curtailing of creativity and architectural innovation | the later Stalinist period |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | the earlier post-revolutionary years | a plethora of radical new buildings |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plethora=Stimulus |
| 3 | **create** | participle |  | radical new buildings *not said here* |  | the city |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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