Belarus, sentence 400

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.

He spent the World War I years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde and was a founder of the Vitebsk Arts College.

Who acts: Marc, I · What happens: spend, year, become, be · To what, where: World War, Soviet Belarus, one, founder

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 (Marc, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 War	det
4	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 War	compound
5	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 years	nsubj
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spent	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 Belarus	case
9	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Belarus	compound
10	Belarus	Belarus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 becoming	punct
12	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 spent	advcl
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 becoming	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	20 artists	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 country	det
16	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 artists	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 country	case
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 distinguished	advmod
19	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 artists	amod
20	artists	artist	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 member	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 member	det
23	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	29 garde	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 garde	det
26	modernist	modernist	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 garde	compound
27	avant	avant	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 garde	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 avant	punct
29	garde	garde	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 member	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 founder	cc
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 founder	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 founder	det
33	founder	founder	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 garde	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 College	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 College	det
36	Vitebsk	Vitebsk	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Arts	compound
37	Arts	Art	PROPN	Number=Plur	38 College	compound
38	College	College	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 founder	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spend	past	Marc	the World War	Soviet Belarus	a member of the modernist avant garde and a founder conj	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Asset
2	year		I				tree rules
3	become	gerund	Marc not said here	one of the country's distinguished artists			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient one=Result
4	is a	past	Marc not said here	a founder		of the Arts College	tree rules

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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Belarus, sentence 400