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title: Critics blame the government for not enforcing conservation laws: in… — Moscow · tree and pragmatics
description: Critics blame the government for not enforcing conservation laws: in the last 12 years, more than 50 buildings with monument status were torn down, several of those dating back to the 17th century. Who acts: Critics. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moscow» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Moscow, sentence 328

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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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Critics blame the government for not enforcing conservation laws: in the last 12 years, more than 50 buildings with monument status were torn down, several of those dating back to the 17th century.

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**Who acts:** Critics · **What happens:** blame, not enforce, tear down · **To what, where:** government, conservation laws, 50 buildings

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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 (Critics), 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:328
# text = Critics blame the government for not enforcing conservation laws: in the last 12 years, more than 50 buildings with monument status were torn down, several of those dating back to the 17th century.
1	Critics	critic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	blame	blame	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	enforcing	enforce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	conservation	conservation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	19	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	monument	monument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	dating	dating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	17th	17th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	36	amod	_	_
36	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blame** | present | Critics | the government |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **enforce** | gerund | Critics *not said here* | conservation laws |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme |
| 3 | **tear down** | past · passive |  | 50 buildings with monument status |  |  | year |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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