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title: During the negotiations of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Belarus firs… — Belarus · tree and pragmatics
description: During the negotiations of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Belarus first declared independence under German occupation on 25 March 1918, forming the Belarusian People's Republic. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belarus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belarus, sentence 79

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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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During the negotiations of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Belarus first declared independence under German occupation on 25 March 1918, forming the Belarusian People's Republic.

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**What happens:** declare, form, negotiate · **To what, where:** independence, German occupation, Republic, Treaty

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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:79
# text = During the negotiations of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Belarus first declared independence under German occupation on 25 March 1918, forming the Belarusian People's Republic.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	negotiations	negotiation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Brest	Brest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Litovsk	Litovsk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Belarus	Belarus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	advmod	_	_
14	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	forming	form	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Belarusian	Belarusian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	People	People	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past |  | independence |  | German occupation | during the negotiations of the Treaty of Brest and Litovsk and Belarus; march | first *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute |
| 2 | **form** | gerund |  | the Belarusian People's Republic |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location republic=Theme |
| 3 | **negotiate** |  |  | the Treaty of Brest and Litovsk and Belarus |  |  |  |  | nom negotiation «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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