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title: The German occupation in 1941–1944 and war on the Eastern Front deva… — Belarus · tree and pragmatics
description: The German occupation in 1941–1944 and war on the Eastern Front devastated Belarus. Who acts: German occupation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belarus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belarus, sentence 116

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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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The German occupation in 1941–1944 and war on the Eastern Front devastated Belarus.

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**Who acts:** German occupation · **What happens:** devastate · **To what, where:** Belarus

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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 (German occupation), 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:116
# text = The German occupation in 1941–1944 and war on the Eastern Front devastated Belarus.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1941	1941	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	1944	1944	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Eastern	Eastern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	compound	_	_
13	Front	Front	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	devastated	devastate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Belarus	Belarus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **devastate** | past | the German occupation in 1941 – 1944 and war on the Eastern Front | Belarus |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus belarus=Experiencer |

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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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