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title: The contested lands were divided between Poland and the Soviet Union… — Belarus · tree and pragmatics
description: The contested lands were divided between Poland and the Soviet Union after the war ended in 1921, and the Byelorussian SSR became a founding member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922. Who acts: war, Byelorussian SSR. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belarus» with its dependency tree and pr
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# Belarus, sentence 93

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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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The contested lands were divided between Poland and the Soviet Union after the war ended in 1921, and the Byelorussian SSR became a founding member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922.

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**Who acts:** war, Byelorussian SSR · **What happens:** contest, divide, end, become, found · **To what, where:** contested lands, 1921, founding member, 1922

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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 (war, Byelorussian SSR), 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:93
# text = The contested lands were divided between Poland and the Soviet Union after the war ended in 1921, and the Byelorussian SSR became a founding member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	contested	contest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1921	1921	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Byelorussian	Byelorussian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	SSR	SSR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	founding	found	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	Socialist	socialist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Republics	republic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	1922	1922	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contest** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **divide** | past · passive |  | the contested lands |  |  |  | between Poland and the Soviet Union | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **end** | past | the war |  |  | 1921 |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **become** | past | the Byelorussian SSR | a founding member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |  |  |  | in 1922 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1922=Result |
| 5 | **found** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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