--- title: In October 1995, a presidential decree abolished the local governmen… — Belarus · tree and pragmatics description: In October 1995, a presidential decree abolished the local governments of cities of raion subordination and urban-type settlements which served as the administrative centre of raions, demoting them from administrative-territorial units to territorial units. 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In October 1995, a presidential decree abolished the local governments of cities of raion subordination and urban-type settlements which served as the administrative centre of raions, demoting them from administrative-territorial units to territorial units. **Who acts:** presidential decree, raion subordination · **What happens:** abolish, serve, demote · **To what, where:** local governments, 1995, settlements, administrative territorial units 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 (presidential decree, raion subordination), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Belarus:230 # text = In October 1995, a presidential decree abolished the local governments of cities of raion subordination and urban-type settlements which served as the administrative centre of raions, demoting them from administrative-territorial units to territorial units. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 October October PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ 3 1995 1995 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 presidential presidential ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 decree decree NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 abolished abolish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 governments government NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 raion raion NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 subordination subordination NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 urban urban ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 type type NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 settlements settlement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 served serve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 administrative administrative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 raions raion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 demoting demote VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 administrative administrative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 territorial territorial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 units unit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 territorial territorial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 units unit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **abolish** | past | a presidential decree | the local governments of cities of raion subordination and type settlements | | 1995 October | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Theme | | 2 | **serve** | past | raion subordination and type settlements | | | | | as the administrative centre of raions | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as centre=Attribute | | 3 | **demote** | gerund | a presidential decree *not said here* | settlements *= settlement* | | administrative territorial units to territorial units | | | 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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 229](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belarus/229/) - next →: [sentence 231](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belarus/231/) - ↑ back to [Belarus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belarus/)