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title: In an interview from September 2020 Lukashenko claimed that detainee… — Belarus · tree and pragmatics
description: In an interview from September 2020 Lukashenko claimed that detainees faked their bruises, saying, "Some of the girls there had their butts painted in blue". Who acts: detainees, Some, butts. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belarus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belarus, sentence 277

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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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In an interview from September 2020 Lukashenko claimed that detainees faked their bruises, saying, "Some of the girls there had their butts painted in blue".

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**Who acts:** detainees, Some, butts · **What happens:** claim, fake, say, have, paint, bruise · **To what, where:** interview, bruises, butts, blue · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (detainees, Some, butts), 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:277
# text = In an interview from September 2020 Lukashenko claimed that detainees faked their bruises, saying, "Some of the girls there had their butts painted in blue".
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	interview	interview	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	Lukashenko	Lukashenko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	detainees	detainee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	faked	fake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bruises	bruise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	butts	butt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  | a interview from September  2020 |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fake** | past | detainees | detainees's bruises |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruise=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | detainees *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Some of the girls | detainees's butts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **paint** *in a quote* | participle | detainees's butts *not said here* |  |  | blue |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in blue=Destination |
| 6 | **bruise** |  | detainees *= detainee* |  |  |  |  |  | nom bruise «state transitive»: poss=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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