Minsk, sentence 120
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 Svislach River, which flows across the city from the northwest to the southeast, is in the urstromtal, an ancient river valley formed by water flowing from melting ice sheets at the end of the last Ice Age.
Who acts: Svislach River, water · What happens: flow, be, form, melt · To what, where: city, urstromtal, ancient river valley, ice sheets, end
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 (Svislach River, water), 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 River | det |
| 2 | Svislach | Svislach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 River | compound |
| 3 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 urstromtal | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 flows | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 flows | nsubj |
| 6 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 River | acl:relcl |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flows | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 northwest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 northwest | det |
| 12 | northwest | northwest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 city | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 southeast | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 southeast | det |
| 15 | southeast | southeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 northwest | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 River | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 urstromtal | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 urstromtal | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 urstromtal | det |
| 20 | urstromtal | urstromtal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 valley | punct |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 valley | det |
| 23 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 valley | amod |
| 24 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 valley | compound |
| 25 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 urstromtal | appos |
| 26 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 valley | acl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 formed | obl |
| 29 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 water | acl |
| 30 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 31 melting | mark |
| 31 | melting | melt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 flowing | advcl |
| 32 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sheets | compound |
| 33 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 melting | obj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 end | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 end | det |
| 36 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 melting | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Age | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Age | det |
| 39 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Age | amod |
| 40 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Age | compound |
| 41 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 end | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 urstromtal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | present | the Svislach River | the city from the northwest to the southeast | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Svislach River | the urstromtal | a ancient river valley appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | form | participle | a ancient river valley not said here | by water | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by water=Location | ||||
| 4 | flow | gerund | water not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | melt | gerund | water not said here | ice sheets | at the end of the last Ice Age | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sheet=Result |
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.
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