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title: In 2007, Belarus's population declined by 0.41% and its fertility ra… — Belarus · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2007, Belarus's population declined by 0.41% and its fertility rate was 1.22, well below the replacement rate. Who acts: population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belarus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belarus, sentence 349

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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 2007, Belarus's population declined by 0.41% and its fertility rate was 1.22, well below the replacement rate.

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**Who acts:** population · **What happens:** decline, be · **To what, where:** population, 1.22, 2007

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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 (population), 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:349
# text = In 2007, Belarus's population declined by 0.41% and its fertility rate was 1.22, well below the replacement rate.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	Belarus	Belarus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
7	declined	decline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	0.41	0.41	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	fertility	fertility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	1.22	1.22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
19	below	below	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	replacement	replacement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decline** | participle |  | Belarus's population *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Belarus's population | 1.22 and the replacement rate |  | 2007 |  | the replacement rate *conj* | tree rules |

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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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