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title: Russia has over 100,000 rivers; the Volga in western Russia, which i… — Russia · tree and pragmatics
description: Russia has over 100,000 rivers; the Volga in western Russia, which is widely regarded as the national river, is the longest river in Europe and forms the Volga Delta, the largest river delta in the continent. Who acts: Russia, Volga. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Russia» with its dependency tree and pr
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# Russia, sentence 259

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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 has over 100,000 rivers; the Volga in western Russia, which is widely regarded as the national river, is the longest river in Europe and forms the Volga Delta, the largest river delta in the continent.

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**Who acts:** Russia, Volga · **What happens:** have over, regard, be, form · **To what, where:** 100,000 rivers, Volga, longest river, Europe, Volga Delta

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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, Volga), 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:259
# text = Russia has over 100,000 rivers; the Volga in western Russia, which is widely regarded as the national river, is the longest river in Europe and forms the Volga Delta, the largest river delta in the continent.
1	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	100,000	100000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Volga	Volga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Volga	Volga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Delta	Delta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	37	amod	_	_
36	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	delta	delta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have over** | present | Russia | 100,000 rivers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |
| 2 | **regard** | present · passive |  | the Volga in western Russia |  |  |  | as the national river; widely *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme as river=Value |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the Volga in western Russia | the longest river |  | Europe |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **form** | present | Russia *not said here* | the Volga Delta |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location delta=Theme |

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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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