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title: The following year, the Crimeans attempted another raid on Moscow, b… — Russia · tree and pragmatics
description: The following year, the Crimeans attempted another raid on Moscow, but this time they were defeated in the crucial Battle of Molodi. Who acts: Crimeans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Russia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Russia, sentence 109

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From Wikipedia, [«Russia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia), 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 following year, the Crimeans attempted another raid on Moscow, but this time they were defeated in the crucial Battle of Molodi.

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**Who acts:** Crimeans · **What happens:** follow, attempt, defeat · **To what, where:** raid, Moscow, time, crucial Battle

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Russia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crimeans), 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:Russia:109
# text = The following year, the Crimeans attempted another raid on Moscow, but this time they were defeated in the crucial Battle of Molodi.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Crimeans	Crimean	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	raid	raid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	crucial	crucial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Molodi	Molodi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **attempt** | past | the Crimeans | another raid |  | Moscow | year |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raid=Eventuality |
| 3 | **defeat** | past · passive |  | this time |  | the crucial Battle of Molodi |  | Crimeans *= crimean* *nsubj:pass* | tree rules |

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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, «Russia», 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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