Minsk, sentence 102
From Wikipedia, «Minsk», 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 historical centre was replaced in the 1940s and 1950s by Stalinist architecture, which favoured grand buildings, broad avenues and wide squares.
Who acts: Stalinist architecture · What happens: replace, favour · To what, where: historical centre, 1940s, grand buildings
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Minsk». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stalinist architecture), 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 centre | det |
| 2 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 centre | amod |
| 3 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replaced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replaced | aux:pass |
| 5 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1940s | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 1940s | det |
| 8 | 1940s | 1940 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 5 replaced | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 1950s | cc |
| 10 | 1950s | 1950 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 8 1940s | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 architecture | case |
| 12 | Stalinist | Stalinist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 architecture | compound |
| 13 | architecture | architecture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replaced | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 favoured | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 favoured | nsubj |
| 16 | favoured | favour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 architecture | acl:relcl |
| 17 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 buildings | amod |
| 18 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 favoured | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 avenues | punct |
| 20 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 avenues | amod |
| 21 | avenues | avenue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 buildings | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 squares | cc |
| 23 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 squares | amod |
| 24 | squares | square | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 buildings | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replaced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | replace | past · passive | Stalinist architecture | the historical centre | the 1940s and 1950s | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | favour | past | Stalinist architecture | grand buildings and broad avenues and wide squares | 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, «Minsk», 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Minsk/102/