Bratislava, sentence 119
From Wikipedia, «Bratislava», 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.
A few returned after the war, but were soon expelled without their properties under the Beneš decrees, part of a widespread expulsion of ethnic Germans from eastern Europe.
What happens: return, expel · To what, where: ethnic Germans
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bratislava». 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 few | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 few | acl |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 war | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 war | det |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 expelled | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 expelled | cc |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 expelled | aux:pass |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 expelled | advmod |
| 11 | expelled | expel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 few | conj |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 properties | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 properties | nmod:poss |
| 14 | properties | property | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 expelled | obl |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 decrees | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 decrees | det |
| 17 | Beneš | Beneš | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 decrees | compound |
| 18 | decrees | decree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 properties | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 part | punct |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 decrees | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 expulsion | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 expulsion | det |
| 23 | widespread | widespread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 expulsion | amod |
| 24 | expulsion | expulsion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 part | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Germans | case |
| 26 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Germans | amod |
| 27 | Germans | German | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 expulsion | nmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 Europe | case |
| 29 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Europe | amod |
| 30 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Germans | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 few | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | participle | after the war | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | expel | past · passive | without authorities's properties under the Beneš decrees; soon property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | expel | ethnic Germans from eastern Europe | nom expulsion «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.
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