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title: Vladimir Lenin, a major revolutionary, developed a variant of commun… — Russia · tree and pragmatics
description: Vladimir Lenin, a major revolutionary, developed a variant of communism known as Leninism. Who acts: Vladimir, communism. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Russia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Russia, sentence 601

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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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Vladimir Lenin, a major revolutionary, developed a variant of communism known as Leninism.

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**Who acts:** Vladimir, communism · **What happens:** develop, know, vary · **To what, where:** variant, communism

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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 (Vladimir, communism), 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:601
# text = Vladimir Lenin, a major revolutionary, developed a variant of communism known as Leninism.
1	Vladimir	Vladimir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	Lenin	Lenin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	revolutionary	revolutionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	developed	develop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	communism	communism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Leninism	Leninism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **develop** | past | Vladimir | a variant of communism |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent variant=Product |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | communism *not said here* |  |  |  | as Leninism | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as leninism=Attribute |
| 3 | **vary** |  | communism |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=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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