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title: Much of the borders of Belarus took their modern shape in 1939, when… — Belarus · tree and pragmatics
description: Much of the borders of Belarus took their modern shape in 1939, when some lands of the Second Polish Republic were reintegrated into it after the Soviet invasion of Poland, and were finalised after World War II. Who acts: Much borders. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belarus» with its dependency tree and
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# Belarus, sentence 10

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From Wikipedia, [«Belarus»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Much of the borders of Belarus took their modern shape in 1939, when some lands of the Second Polish Republic were reintegrated into it after the Soviet invasion of Poland, and were finalised after World War II.

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**Who acts:** Much borders · **What happens:** take, reintegrate, finalis, invade · **To what, where:** modern shape, 1939, lands, Republic, Poland

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Belarus». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Much borders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Belarus:10
# text = Much of the borders of Belarus took their modern shape in 1939, when some lands of the Second Polish Republic were reintegrated into it after the Soviet invasion of Poland, and were finalised after World War II.
1	Much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Belarus	Belarus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1939	1939	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
20	Polish	Polish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	reintegrated	reintegrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	finalised	finalis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
36	after	after	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	38	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Much borders of Belarus | borders's modern shape |  | 1939 |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shape=Value in 1939=Location |
| 2 | **reintegrate** | past · passive |  | some lands of the Second Polish Republic |  | Republic | after the Soviet invasion of Poland |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **finalis** | past · passive | the Much borders of Belarus *not said here* |  |  |  | after World War |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **invade** |  |  | Poland |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Belarus», 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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