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title: In 1957, Laika, a Soviet space dog, became the first animal to orbit… — Russia · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1957, Laika, a Soviet space dog, became the first animal to orbit the Earth, aboard Sputnik 2. Who acts: Laika. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Russia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Russia, sentence 444

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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 1957, Laika, a Soviet space dog, became the first animal to orbit the Earth, aboard Sputnik 2.

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**Who acts:** Laika · **What happens:** become, orbit · **To what, where:** first animal, 1957, Earth

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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 (Laika), 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:444
# text = In 1957, Laika, a Soviet space dog, became the first animal to orbit the Earth, aboard Sputnik 2.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1957	1957	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Laika	Laika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	orbit	orbit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	aboard	aboard	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Sputnik	Sputnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
22	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Laika | the first animal |  |  |  | in 1957 *result*; Sputnik *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1957=Result |
| 2 | **orbit** | to-infinitive | Laika *not said here* | the Earth |  |  |  |  | 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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