Belarus, sentence 93
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.
The contested lands were divided between Poland and the Soviet Union after the war ended in 1921, and the Byelorussian SSR became a founding member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922.
Who acts: war, Byelorussian SSR · What happens: contest, divide, end, become, found · To what, where: contested lands, 1921, founding member, 1922
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 (war, Byelorussian SSR), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lands | det |
| 2 | contested | contest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lands | amod |
| 3 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 divided | aux:pass |
| 5 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 Poland | case |
| 7 | Poland | Poland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 divided | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Union | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Union | det |
| 10 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Union | compound |
| 11 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Poland | conj |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 ended | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 war | det |
| 14 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ended | nsubj |
| 15 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 divided | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1921 | case |
| 17 | 1921 | 1921 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 ended | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 became | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 became | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 SSR | det |
| 21 | Byelorussian | Byelorussian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 SSR | compound |
| 22 | SSR | SSR | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 became | nsubj |
| 23 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 divided | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 member | det |
| 25 | founding | found | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 member | amod |
| 26 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 became | xcomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Union | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Union | det |
| 29 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 member | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Republics | case |
| 31 | Soviet | soviet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Republics | amod |
| 32 | Socialist | socialist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Republics | compound |
| 33 | Republics | republic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 Union | nmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 1922 | case |
| 35 | 1922 | 1922 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 became | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contest | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | divide | past · passive | the contested lands | between Poland and the Soviet Union | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | end | past | the war | 1921 | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | become | past | the Byelorussian SSR | a founding member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | in 1922 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1922=Result | |||
| 5 | found | gerund | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.
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