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title: Between 1610 and 1612, troops of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth… — Moscow · tree and pragmatics
description: Between 1610 and 1612, troops of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth occupied Moscow, as its ruler Sigismund III tried to take the Russian throne. Who acts: troops, ruler. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Moscow» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Moscow, sentence 96

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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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Between 1610 and 1612, troops of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth occupied Moscow, as its ruler Sigismund III tried to take the Russian throne.

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**Who acts:** troops, ruler · **What happens:** occupy, try, take · **To what, where:** Moscow, Russian throne

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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 (troops, ruler), 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:96
# text = Between 1610 and 1612, troops of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth occupied Moscow, as its ruler Sigismund III tried to take the Russian throne.
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1610	1610	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	1612	1612	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	Polish	polish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Lithuanian	lithuanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	Sigismund	Sigismund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
20	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	_
21	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occupy** | past | troops of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth | Moscow |  |  |  | between 1610 | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus moscow=Experiencer |
| 2 | **try** | past | Commonwealth's ruler |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Commonwealth's ruler *not said here* | the Russian throne |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=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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