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title: Russia's national non-alcoholic drink is kvass, and the national alc… — Russia · tree and pragmatics
description: Russia's national non-alcoholic drink is kvass, and the national alcoholic drink is vodka; its production in Russia (and elsewhere) dates back to the 14th century. Who acts: national non-alcoholic drink, national alcoholic drink, production, vodka. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Russia» with its depende
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# Russia, sentence 628

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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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Russia's national non-alcoholic drink is kvass, and the national alcoholic drink is vodka; its production in Russia (and elsewhere) dates back to the 14th century.

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**Who acts:** national non-alcoholic drink, national alcoholic drink, production, vodka · **What happens:** be, date back, produce · **To what, where:** kvass, vodka, Russia

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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 (national non-alcoholic drink, national alcoholic drink, production, vodka), 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:628
# text = Russia's national non-alcoholic drink is kvass, and the national alcoholic drink is vodka; its production in Russia (and elsewhere) dates back to the 14th century.
1	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	non-alcoholic	non-alcoholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	kvass	kvass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	alcoholic	alcoholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	vodka	vodka	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	dates	date	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	14th	14th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
30	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Russia's national non-alcoholic drink | kvass and vodka |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the national alcoholic drink | vodka |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **date back** | present | vodka's production in Russia |  |  |  |  | elsewhere *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **produce** |  | vodka |  |  | Russia |  |  | nom production «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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