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description: Lake Baikal, the largest and most prominent among Russia's fresh water bodies, is the world's deepest, purest, oldest and most capacious fresh water lake, containing over one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water. Who acts: Lake. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Russia» with its dependency tree and pra
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# Russia, sentence 257

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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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Lake Baikal, the largest and most prominent among Russia's fresh water bodies, is the world's deepest, purest, oldest and most capacious fresh water lake, containing over one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water.

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**Who acts:** Lake · **What happens:** be, contain · **To what, where:** one fifth

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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 (Lake), 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:257
# text = Lake Baikal, the largest and most prominent among Russia's fresh water bodies, is the world's deepest, purest, oldest and most capacious fresh water lake, containing over one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water.
1	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
2	Baikal	Baikal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	purest	pure	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	27	advmod	_	_
27	capacious	capacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	fifth	fifth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Lake  the largest |  |  |  |  | the world *nmod:poss*; deep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Lake  the largest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **contain** | gerund | Lake  the largest *not said here* |  |  | one fifth of the world's fresh surface water |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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