Germany, sentence 110
From Wikipedia, «Germany», 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 later stages of and after World War II, around 12 million ethnic Germans were expelled from across Eastern Europe, and Germany lost roughly one-quarter of its pre-war territory.
Who acts: World War, Germany · What happens: expel, lose · To what, where: million ethnic Germans, Eastern Europe, one quarter
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Germany». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (World War, Germany), 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 | _ | 4 stages | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stages | det |
| 3 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 stages | amod |
| 4 | stages | stage | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 War | case |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 War | cc |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 War | case |
| 8 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 War | compound |
| 9 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stages | nmod |
| 10 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 9 War | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 expelled | punct |
| 12 | around | around | ADV | _ | 14 million | advmod |
| 13 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 million | compound |
| 14 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 Germans | nummod |
| 15 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Germans | amod |
| 16 | Germans | german | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 expelled | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 expelled | aux:pass |
| 18 | expelled | expel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 War | acl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Europe | case |
| 20 | across | across | ADP | _ | 22 Europe | case |
| 21 | Eastern | Eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Europe | amod |
| 22 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 expelled | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lost | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lost | cc |
| 25 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 lost | nsubj |
| 26 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 expelled | conj |
| 27 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 30 quarter | advmod |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 quarter | nummod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 one | punct |
| 30 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lost | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 territory | case |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 territory | nmod:poss |
| 33 | pre-war | pre-war | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 territory | amod |
| 34 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 quarter | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stages | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expel | past · passive | World War not said here | million ethnic Germans | Eastern Europe | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from europe=Source | |||
| 2 | lose | past | Germany | one quarter of quarter's pre-war territory | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=Eventuality |
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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