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title: However, when final voting commenced on 6 July 2005, Moscow was the… — Moscow · tree and pragmatics
description: However, when final voting commenced on 6 July 2005, Moscow was the first city to be eliminated from further rounds. Who acts: Moscow. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moscow» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Moscow, sentence 429

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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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However, when final voting commenced on 6 July 2005, Moscow was the first city to be eliminated from further rounds.

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**Who acts:** Moscow · **What happens:** commence, be, eliminate · **To what, where:** final voting, 6, first city, further rounds

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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:429
# text = However, when final voting commenced on 6 July 2005, Moscow was the first city to be eliminated from further rounds.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	voting	voting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	commenced	commence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	eliminated	eliminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	rounds	round	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commence** | participle |  | final voting *not said here* |  | 6  July  2005 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Moscow | the first city |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eliminate** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | further rounds |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: from round=Initial\_Location |

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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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