Belarus, sentence 10
From Wikipedia, «Belarus», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Much of the borders of Belarus took their modern shape in 1939, when some lands of the Second Polish Republic were reintegrated into it after the Soviet invasion of Poland, and were finalised after World War II.
Who acts: Much borders · What happens: take, reintegrate, finalis, invade · To what, where: modern shape, 1939, lands, Republic, Poland
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Belarus». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Much borders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 borders | amod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 borders | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 borders | det |
| 4 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 took | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Belarus | case |
| 6 | Belarus | Belarus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 borders | nmod |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shape | nmod:poss |
| 9 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shape | amod |
| 10 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1939 | case |
| 12 | 1939 | 1939 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reintegrated | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 reintegrated | advmod |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 lands | det |
| 16 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 reintegrated | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Republic | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Republic | det |
| 19 | Second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 Republic | amod |
| 20 | Polish | Polish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Republic | compound |
| 21 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 lands | nmod |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 reintegrated | aux:pass |
| 23 | reintegrated | reintegrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 took | conj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 reintegrated | obl |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 invasion | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 invasion | det |
| 28 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 invasion | compound |
| 29 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reintegrated | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Poland | case |
| 31 | Poland | Poland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 invasion | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 finalised | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 finalised | cc |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 finalised | aux:pass |
| 35 | finalised | finalis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 took | conj |
| 36 | after | after | ADP | _ | 38 War | case |
| 37 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 War | compound |
| 38 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 finalised | obl |
| 39 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 38 War | flat |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Much borders of Belarus | borders's modern shape | 1939 | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shape=Value in 1939=Location | |||
| 2 | reintegrate | past · passive | some lands of the Second Polish Republic | Republic | after the Soviet invasion of Poland | tree rules | |||
| 3 | finalis | past · passive | the Much borders of Belarus not said here | after World War | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | invade | Poland | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Belarus», 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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