--- title: Russia wields significant political influence across the geopolitica… — Russia · tree and pragmatics description: Russia wields significant political influence across the geopolitically important South Caucasus and Central Asia, described in Russia as the "near abroad", while foreign political analysts have described the two regions as being part of Russia's "backyard". Who acts: Russia. 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Russia wields significant political influence across the geopolitically important South Caucasus and Central Asia, described in Russia as the "near abroad", while foreign political analysts have described the two regions as being part of Russia's "backyard". **Who acts:** Russia · **What happens:** wield, describe, be · **To what, where:** significant political influence, important South Caucasus, Russia, foreign political analysts 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. **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:323 # text = Russia wields significant political influence across the geopolitically important South Caucasus and Central Asia, described in Russia as the "near abroad", while foreign political analysts have described the two regions as being part of Russia's "backyard". 1 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wields wield VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 significant significant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 political political ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 influence influence NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 across across ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 geopolitically geopolitically ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Caucasus Caucasus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 Central Central PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 14 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 described describe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 near near ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 abroad abroad ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 political political ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 analysts analyst NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 described describe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 regions region NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 cop _ _ 37 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 40 's 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 backyard backyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wield** | present | Russia | significant political influence | | the important South Caucasus and Central Asia | | | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Theme | | 2 | **describe** | participle | | the important South Caucasus and Central Asia *not said here* | | Russia | | abroad *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **describe** | present · perfect · passive | | foreign political analysts | | | | the two regions *obj* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | as part; of Russia's backyard | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 322](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Russia/322/) - next →: [sentence 324](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Russia/324/) - ↑ back to [Russia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Russia/)