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title: Ivan did his utmost to make his capital a worthy successor to Consta… — Moscow · tree and pragmatics
description: Ivan did his utmost to make his capital a worthy successor to Constantinople, and he had the Kremlin reconstructed after inviting architects from Renaissance Italy, including Petrus Antonius Solarius, who designed the new Kremlin wall and its towers, and Marco Ruffo who designed the new palace for t
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# Moscow, sentence 75

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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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Ivan did his utmost to make his capital a worthy successor to Constantinople, and he had the Kremlin reconstructed after inviting architects from Renaissance Italy, including Petrus Antonius Solarius, who designed the new Kremlin wall and its towers, and Marco Ruffo who designed the new palace for the prince.

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**Who acts:** Ivan, Kremlin, Petrus Antonius, Marco · **What happens:** do, make, have, reconstruct, invite, design · **To what, where:** capital, architects, Renaissance Italy, new Kremlin wall, new palace

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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 (Ivan, Kremlin, Petrus Antonius, Marco), 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:75
# text = Ivan did his utmost to make his capital a worthy successor to Constantinople, and he had the Kremlin reconstructed after inviting architects from Renaissance Italy, including Petrus Antonius Solarius, who designed the new Kremlin wall and its towers, and Marco Ruffo who designed the new palace for the prince.
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	utmost	utmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	successor	successor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Kremlin	Kremlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	reconstructed	reconstruct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	inviting	invite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	architects	architect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Renaissance	Renaissance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	including	including	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Petrus	Petrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Antonius	Antonius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
31	Solarius	Solarius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	designed	design	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	Kremlin	Kremlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	Marco	Marco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
45	Ruffo	Ruffo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	flat	_	_
46	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
47	designed	design	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Ivan |  |  |  |  | utmost *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Ivan *not said here* | Ivan's capital |  |  |  | a worthy successor *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset capital=Beneficiary successor=Product |
| 3 | **have** | past | Ivan |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reconstruct** | past | the Kremlin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **invite** | gerund | the Kremlin *not said here* | architects |  | Renaissance Italy |  | Petrus Antonius *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **design** | past | Petrus Antonius | the new Kremlin wall |  |  |  | Kremlin's towers *conj* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Result |
| 7 | **design** | past | Marco | the new palace |  |  |  | for the prince; who *nsubj* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent palace=Result for prince=Beneficiary |

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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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