Minsk, sentence 228
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.
Its industrial development started in the 1860s and was facilitated by the railways built in the 1870s.
Who acts: industrial development, railways, chocolate · What happens: start, facilitate, build, develop · To what, where: 1860s, railways
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 (industrial development, railways, chocolate), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 development | nmod:poss |
| 2 | industrial | industrial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 development | amod |
| 3 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 started | nsubj |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1860s | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 1860s | det |
| 7 | 1860s | 1860 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 4 started | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 facilitated | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 facilitated | aux:pass |
| 10 | facilitated | facilitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 started | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 railways | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 railways | det |
| 13 | railways | railway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 facilitated | obl |
| 14 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 railways | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1870s | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 1870s | det |
| 17 | 1870s | 1870 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 14 built | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | chocolate's industrial development | the 1860s | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | facilitate | past · passive | the railways | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | build | participle | the railways not said here | in the 1870s | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1870=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | develop | chocolate | nom development «act transitive»: poss=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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