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title: On, 1918, the Russian Constituent Assembly declared Russia a democra… — Russia · tree and pragmatics
description: On, 1918, the Russian Constituent Assembly declared Russia a democratic federal republic (thus ratifying the Provisional Government's decision). Who acts: Russian Constituent Assembly, democratic federal republic, Provisional Government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Russia» with its dependency tree an
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# Russia, sentence 157

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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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On, 1918, the Russian Constituent Assembly declared Russia a democratic federal republic (thus ratifying the Provisional Government's decision).

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**Who acts:** Russian Constituent Assembly, democratic federal republic, Provisional Government · **What happens:** declare, ratify, decide · **To what, where:** Russia, 1918, decision

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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 (Russian Constituent Assembly, democratic federal republic, Provisional Government), 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:157
# text = On, 1918, the Russian Constituent Assembly declared Russia a democratic federal republic (thus ratifying the Provisional Government's decision).
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Constituent	Constituent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	democratic	democratic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	ratifying	ratify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Provisional	provisional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Government	Government	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the Russian Constituent Assembly | Russia |  | 1918 |  | a democratic federal republic *xcomp* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent russia=Attribute |
| 2 | **ratify** | gerund | a democratic federal republic *not said here* | the Provisional Government's decision |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **decide** |  | the Provisional Government |  |  |  |  |  | nom decision «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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