Belarus, sentence 277
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.
In an interview from September 2020 Lukashenko claimed that detainees faked their bruises, saying, "Some of the girls there had their butts painted in blue".
Who acts: detainees, Some, butts · What happens: claim, fake, say, have, paint, bruise · To what, where: interview, bruises, butts, blue · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (detainees, Some, butts), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 interview | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 interview | det |
| 3 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 claimed | obl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 September | case |
| 5 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 interview | nmod |
| 6 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 September | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | Lukashenko | Lukashenko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 September | flat |
| 8 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 faked | mark |
| 10 | detainees | detainee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 faked | nsubj |
| 11 | faked | fake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 claimed | ccomp |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bruises | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bruises | bruise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 faked | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saying | punct |
| 15 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 faked | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Some | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Some | punct |
| 18 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 had | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 girls | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girls | det |
| 21 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Some | nmod |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 girls | advmod |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saying | ccomp |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 butts | nmod:poss |
| 25 | butts | butt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 had | xcomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 blue | case |
| 28 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 painted | obl |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 claimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | past | a interview from September 2020 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fake | past | detainees | detainees's bruises | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruise=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | detainees not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | Some of the girls | detainees's butts | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | paint in a quote | participle | detainees's butts not said here | blue | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in blue=Destination | ||||
| 6 | bruise | detainees = detainee | nom bruise «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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