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title: On 23 May 2011, the ruble depreciated 56% against the United States… — Belarus · tree and pragmatics
description: On 23 May 2011, the ruble depreciated 56% against the United States dollar. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belarus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belarus, sentence 321

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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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On 23 May 2011, the ruble depreciated 56% against the United States dollar.

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**What happens:** depreciate · **To what, where:** ruble, 23

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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: 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:321
# text = On 23 May 2011, the ruble depreciated 56% against the United States dollar.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ruble	ruble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	depreciated	depreciate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	56	56	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	compound	_	_
15	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depreciate** | participle |  | the ruble *not said here* |  |  |  | against the States dollar | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient %=Extent |

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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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