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title: Moscow's last rival, the Novgorod Republic, prospered as the chief f… — Russia · tree and pragmatics
description: Moscow's last rival, the Novgorod Republic, prospered as the chief fur trade centre and the easternmost port of the Hanseatic League. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Russia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Russia, sentence 96

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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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Moscow's last rival, the Novgorod Republic, prospered as the chief fur trade centre and the easternmost port of the Hanseatic League.

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**What happens:** prosper · **To what, where:** last rival

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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: 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:96
# text = Moscow's last rival, the Novgorod Republic, prospered as the chief fur trade centre and the easternmost port of the Hanseatic League.
1	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rival	rival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Novgorod	Novgorod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	prospered	prosper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	easternmost	easternmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Hanseatic	Hanseatic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prosper** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as the chief trade centre and the easternmost port of the Hanseatic League | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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