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title: In the 21st century, Russia has pursued an aggressive foreign policy… — Russia · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 21st century, Russia has pursued an aggressive foreign policy aimed at securing regional dominance in Europe and increasing its international influence, as well as increasing domestic support for the government. Who acts: Russia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Russia» with its dependency tree and
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# Russia, sentence 328

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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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In the 21st century, Russia has pursued an aggressive foreign policy aimed at securing regional dominance in Europe and increasing its international influence, as well as increasing domestic support for the government.

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**Who acts:** Russia · **What happens:** pursue, aim, secure, increase · **To what, where:** aggressive foreign policy, regional dominance, Europe, international influence, domestic support

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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:328
# text = In the 21st century, Russia has pursued an aggressive foreign policy aimed at securing regional dominance in Europe and increasing its international influence, as well as increasing domestic support for the government.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	21st	21st	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	aggressive	aggressive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	aimed	aim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	securing	secure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	dominance	dominance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	increasing	increase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	29	cc	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	fixed	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
29	increasing	increase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
30	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pursue** | present · perfect | Russia | a aggressive foreign policy |  |  | century |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent policy=Theme |
| 2 | **aim** | participle |  | a aggressive foreign policy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **secure** | gerund |  | regional dominance |  | Europe |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition dominance=Theme |
| 4 | **increase** | gerund |  | dominance's international influence |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer influence=Patient |
| 5 | **increase** | gerund |  | domestic support |  |  |  | for the government | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer support=Patient |

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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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