---
title: He spent the World War I years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of th… — Belarus · tree and pragmatics
description: He spent the World War I years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde and was a founder of the Vitebsk Arts College. Who acts: Marc, I. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belarus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belarus/400/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Belarus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belarus/) / 400

# Belarus, sentence 400

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He spent the World War I years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde and was a founder of the Vitebsk Arts College.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Marc, I · **What happens:** spend, year, become, be · **To what, where:** World War, Soviet Belarus, one, founder

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Marc, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:400
# text = He spent the World War I years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde and was a founder of the Vitebsk Arts College.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Belarus	Belarus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	19	advmod	_	_
19	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	modernist	modernist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
27	avant	avant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	garde	garde	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	founder	founder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	Vitebsk	Vitebsk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Arts	Art	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	38	compound	_	_
38	College	College	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past | Marc | the World War |  | Soviet Belarus |  | a member of the modernist avant garde and a founder *conj* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Asset |
| 2 | **year** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | gerund | Marc *not said here* | one of the country's distinguished artists |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient one=Result |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Marc *not said here* | a founder |  |  |  | of the Arts College | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 399](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belarus/399/)
- next →: [sentence 401](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belarus/401/)
- ↑ back to [Belarus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belarus/)