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title: The 16th century saw the development of the unique tent-like churche… — Russia · tree and pragmatics
description: The 16th century saw the development of the unique tent-like churches and the onion dome design, which is a distinctive feature of Russian architecture. Who acts: 16th century, dome design. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Russia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Russia, sentence 549

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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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The 16th century saw the development of the unique tent-like churches and the onion dome design, which is a distinctive feature of Russian architecture.

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**Who acts:** 16th century, dome design · **What happens:** see, be, develop · **To what, where:** development, distinctive feature, unique like churches

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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 (16th century, dome design), 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:549
# text = The 16th century saw the development of the unique tent-like churches and the onion dome design, which is a distinctive feature of Russian architecture.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	16th	16th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	unique	unique	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	onion	onion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	dome	dome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	distinctive	distinctive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	feature	feature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the 16th century | the development of the unique like churches and the dome design and a distinctive feature |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer development=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the dome design and a distinctive feature | a distinctive feature |  |  |  | of Russian architecture | tree rules |
| 3 | **develop** |  |  | the unique like churches and the dome design and a distinctive feature |  |  |  |  | nom development «act transitive»: of=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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