The datafiles Data for Russian Converb Constructions Corresponding to Swedish Purposive för att ‘in order to’ + Infinitive Constructions (imperfective converbs) excel-format snd.xlsx; Data for Russian Converb Constructions Corresponding to Swedish Purposive för att ‘in order to’ + Infinitive Constructions (imperfective converbs) only used data.csv; data for Russian Converb Constructions Corresponding to Swedish Purposive för att ‘in order to’ + Infinitive Constructions (perfective converbs) for snd.xlsx, and data for Russian Converb Constructions Corresponding to Swedish Purposive för att ‘in order to’ + Infinitive Constructions (perfective converbs) only used data.csv contain text fragments that have been extracted from The Russian National Corpus (RNC), available at ruscorpora.ru, under limitations and exceptions to IPR and database protection regulations. The contribution of the author of the present dataset to these files, as detailed in the ReadMe file, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, as described here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.