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title: Russia continues to rank very low in measurements of democracy, huma… — Russia · tree and pragmatics
description: Russia continues to rank very low in measurements of democracy, human rights and media freedom, while having high levels of corruption. Who acts: Russia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Russia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Russia, sentence 23

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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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Russia continues to rank very low in measurements of democracy, human rights and media freedom, while having high levels of corruption.

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**Who acts:** Russia · **What happens:** continue, rank, have, measure · **To what, where:** measurements, high levels, democracy

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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 (Russia), 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:23
# text = Russia continues to rank very low in measurements of democracy, human rights and media freedom, while having high levels of corruption.
1	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	continues	continue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	rank	rank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	measurements	measurement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
20	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	levels	level	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | present | Russia |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **rank** | to-infinitive | Russia *not said here* |  |  | measurements of democracy and human rights and media freedom |  | low *property* | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | Russia *not said here* | high levels of corruption |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent level=Patient |
| 4 | **measure** |  |  | democracy |  |  |  |  | nom measurement «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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