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title: This pattern of a centralised ruling system has its roots in the lat… — Russia · tree and pragmatics
description: This pattern of a centralised ruling system has its roots in the late Middle Ages, with a unified Russian state being established as an absolute monarchy in the late 15th century, a governance structure that was followed until the early 20th century. Who acts: pattern, centralised ruling system. A s
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# Russia, sentence 295

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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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This pattern of a centralised ruling system has its roots in the late Middle Ages, with a unified Russian state being established as an absolute monarchy in the late 15th century, a governance structure that was followed until the early 20th century.

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**Who acts:** pattern, centralised ruling system · **What happens:** centralis, have, establish, follow, pattern · **To what, where:** roots, late Middle Ages, unified Russian state, governance structure

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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 (pattern, centralised ruling system), 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:295
# text = This pattern of a centralised ruling system has its roots in the late Middle Ages, with a unified Russian state being established as an absolute monarchy in the late 15th century, a governance structure that was followed until the early 20th century.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	centralised	centralis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	ruling	ruling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
15	Ages	Age	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	unified	unified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	absolute	absolute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	monarchy	monarchy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	15th	15th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	governance	governance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	structure	structure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	until	until	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	44	amod	_	_
44	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **centralis** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | this pattern of a centralised ruling system | pattern's roots and a unified Russian state and a governance structure |  |  | in the late Middle Ages |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient |
| 3 | **establish** | gerund · passive |  | a unified Russian state *not said here* |  |  | century | as a absolute monarchy | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP» |
| 4 | **follow** | past · passive |  | a governance structure |  |  | century |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **pattern** |  | a centralised ruling system |  |  |  |  |  | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=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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