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title: Belarus is the only European country still using capital punishment,… — Belarus · tree and pragmatics
description: Belarus is the only European country still using capital punishment, having carried out executions in 2011. Who acts: Belarus, only European country. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belarus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belarus, sentence 269

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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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Belarus is the only European country still using capital punishment, having carried out executions in 2011.

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**Who acts:** Belarus, only European country · **What happens:** be, use, have, carry out · **To what, where:** only European country, capital punishment, carried executions, 2011

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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 (Belarus, only European country), 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:269
# text = Belarus is the only European country still using capital punishment, having carried out executions in 2011.
1	Belarus	Belarus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	capital	capital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	executions	execution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Belarus | the only European country |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | the only European country *not said here* | capital punishment |  |  | still |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | the only European country *not said here* | carried executions |  | 2011 |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent execution=Patient |
| 4 | **carry out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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