Belarus, sentence 79
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.
During the negotiations of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Belarus first declared independence under German occupation on 25 March 1918, forming the Belarusian People's Republic.
What happens: declare, form, negotiate · To what, where: independence, German occupation, Republic, Treaty
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: 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 negotiations | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 negotiations | det |
| 3 | negotiations | negotiation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 declared | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Treaty | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Treaty | det |
| 6 | Treaty | Treaty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 negotiations | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Brest | case |
| 8 | Brest | Brest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Treaty | nmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Litovsk | punct |
| 10 | Litovsk | Litovsk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Brest | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Belarus | punct |
| 12 | Belarus | Belarus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Treaty | conj |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 declared | advmod |
| 14 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 declared | obj |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 occupation | case |
| 17 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 occupation | amod |
| 18 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 declared | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 March | case |
| 20 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 March | nummod |
| 21 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 declared | obl |
| 22 | 1918 | 1918 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 March | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 forming | punct |
| 24 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 declared | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 People | det |
| 26 | Belarusian | Belarusian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 People | compound |
| 27 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Republic | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 People | case |
| 29 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 forming | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | independence | German occupation | during the negotiations of the Treaty of Brest and Litovsk and Belarus; march | first property | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute | ||
| 2 | form | gerund | the Belarusian People's Republic | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location republic=Theme | |||||
| 3 | negotiate | the Treaty of Brest and Litovsk and Belarus | nom negotiation «communication 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.
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