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title: The ancestors of Russians are among the Slavic tribes that separated… — Russia · tree and pragmatics
description: The ancestors of Russians are among the Slavic tribes that separated from the Proto-Indo-Europeans, who appeared in the northeastern part of Europe c. 1500 years ago. Who acts: ancestors, Slavic tribes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Russia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Russia, sentence 64

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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 ancestors of Russians are among the Slavic tribes that separated from the Proto-Indo-Europeans, who appeared in the northeastern part of Europe c. 1500 years ago.

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**Who acts:** ancestors, Slavic tribes · **What happens:** be, separate, appear · **To what, where:** northeastern part

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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 (ancestors, Slavic tribes), 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:64
# text = The ancestors of Russians are among the Slavic tribes that separated from the Proto-Indo-Europeans, who appeared in the northeastern part of Europe c. 1500 years ago.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Russians	Russian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Slavic	slavic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	separated	separate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
14	Proto	Proto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Indo	Indo	X	AFX	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Europeans	European	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	northeastern	northeastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	c.	c.	SYM	SYM	_	29	case	_	_
29	1500	1500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the ancestors of Russians |  |  |  |  | among the Slavic tribes | tree rules |
| 2 | **separate** | past | the Slavic tribes |  |  |  |  | from the Proto Europeans | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from european=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **appear** | past | the Slavic tribes |  |  | the northeastern part of Europe |  | ago *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location |

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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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