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title: In 2009, it recorded annual population growth for the first time in… — Russia · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2009, it recorded annual population growth for the first time in fifteen years, and subsequently experienced annual population growth due to declining death rates, increased birth rates, and increased immigration. Who acts: population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Russia» with its dependency tree a
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# Russia, sentence 466

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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 2009, it recorded annual population growth for the first time in fifteen years, and subsequently experienced annual population growth due to declining death rates, increased birth rates, and increased immigration.

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**Who acts:** population · **What happens:** record, decline, increase · **To what, where:** annual population growth, 2009

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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 (population), 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:466
# text = In 2009, it recorded annual population growth for the first time in fifteen years, and subsequently experienced annual population growth due to declining death rates, increased birth rates, and increased immigration.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	recorded	record	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	experienced	experienced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
20	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	27	case	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	declining	decline	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
26	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	rates	rate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
30	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	rates	rate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	immigration	immigration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **record** | past | population | annual population growth |  | 2009 | time; year | increased immigration *parataxis* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent growth=Theme in 2009=Destination |
| 2 | **decline** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **increase** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **increase** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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