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title: It has initiated military interventions in the post-Soviet states of… — Russia · tree and pragmatics
description: It has initiated military interventions in the post-Soviet states of Georgia and Ukraine, as well as in Syria during its prolonged civil war in a bid to increase its influence in the Middle East, and achieve its great power ambitions. Who acts: support. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Russia» with its de
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# Russia, sentence 329

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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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It has initiated military interventions in the post-Soviet states of Georgia and Ukraine, as well as in Syria during its prolonged civil war in a bid to increase its influence in the Middle East, and achieve its great power ambitions.

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**Who acts:** support · **What happens:** initiate, prolong, increase, achieve, war, ambition · **To what, where:** support, post-Soviet states, influence, Middle East, great power ambitions, bid

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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 (support), 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:329
# text = It has initiated military interventions in the post-Soviet states of Georgia and Ukraine, as well as in Syria during its prolonged civil war in a bid to increase its influence in the Middle East, and achieve its great power ambitions.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	initiated	initiate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	interventions	intervention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	post-Soviet	post-soviet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	19	cc	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	fixed	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
20	during	during	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	prolonged	prolong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
23	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bid	bid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	achieve	achieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
39	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
40	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	ambitions	ambition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **initiate** | present · perfect · passive |  | support |  | the post-Soviet states of Georgia and Ukraine | during support's prolonged civil war in a bid | in Syria; military interventions *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prolong** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **increase** | to-infinitive |  | support's influence |  | the Middle East |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer influence=Patient |
| 4 | **achieve** | infinitive |  | support's great power ambitions |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambition=Eventuality |
| 5 | **war** |  | support |  |  | a bid |  |  | nom war «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
| 6 | **ambition** |  | support |  |  |  |  |  | nom ambition «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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