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title: As the legal successor of the Soviet Union, Russia retains its seat… — Russia · tree and pragmatics
description: As the legal successor of the Soviet Union, Russia retains its seat as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. Who acts: Russia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Russia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Russia, sentence 313

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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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As the legal successor of the Soviet Union, Russia retains its seat as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

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**Who acts:** Russia · **What happens:** retain · **To what, where:** seat

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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:313
# text = As the legal successor of the Soviet Union, Russia retains its seat as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	successor	successor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	retains	retain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	21	compound	_	_
21	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	compound	_	_
22	Security	Security	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retain** | present | Russia | network's seat |  |  |  | as the legal successor of the Soviet Union; as a permanent member of the Nations Security Council | tree rules |

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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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