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title: The first circular defence walls set the trajectory of Moscow's ring… — Moscow · tree and pragmatics
description: The first circular defence walls set the trajectory of Moscow's rings, laying the groundwork for the future planning of the Russian capital. Who acts: first circular defence walls. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moscow» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Moscow, sentence 498

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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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The first circular defence walls set the trajectory of Moscow's rings, laying the groundwork for the future planning of the Russian capital.

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**Who acts:** first circular defence walls · **What happens:** set, lay, plan · **To what, where:** trajectory, groundwork, Russian capital

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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 (first circular defence walls), 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:498
# text = The first circular defence walls set the trajectory of Moscow's rings, laying the groundwork for the future planning of the Russian capital.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
3	circular	circular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	trajectory	trajectory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	groundwork	groundwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	planning	planning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | present | the first circular defence walls | the trajectory of Moscow's rings |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient trajectory=Result |
| 2 | **lay** | gerund | the first circular defence walls *not said here* | the groundwork |  |  |  | for the future planning of the Russian capital | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent groundwork=Result for planning=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **plan** |  |  | the Russian capital |  |  |  |  | nom planning «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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