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title: The reign of his son Alexander III (1881–1894) was less liberal but… — Russia · tree and pragmatics
description: The reign of his son Alexander III (1881–1894) was less liberal but more peaceful. Who acts: reign. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Russia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Russia, sentence 148

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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 reign of his son Alexander III (1881–1894) was less liberal but more peaceful.

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**Who acts:** reign · **What happens:** be

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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 (reign), 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:148
# text = The reign of his son Alexander III (1881–1894) was less liberal but more peaceful.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	1881	1881	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	1894	1894	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	liberal	liberal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the reign of Alexander's son |  |  |  |  | less, liberal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the reign of Alexander's son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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