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title: The Berlin airlift, conducted by the three western Allies, overcame… — Berlin · tree and pragmatics
description: The Berlin airlift, conducted by the three western Allies, overcame this blockade by supplying food and other supplies to the city from June 1948 to May 1949. Who acts: Berlin airlift. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Berlin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Berlin, sentence 100

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From Wikipedia, [«Berlin»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin), 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 Berlin airlift, conducted by the three western Allies, overcame this blockade by supplying food and other supplies to the city from June 1948 to May 1949.

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**Who acts:** Berlin airlift · **What happens:** conduct, overcome, supply · **To what, where:** Berlin airlift, blockade, food, city

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Berlin». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Berlin airlift), 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:Berlin:100
# text = The Berlin airlift, conducted by the three western Allies, overcame this blockade by supplying food and other supplies to the city from June 1948 to May 1949.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Berlin	Berlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	airlift	airlift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Allies	ally	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	overcame	overcome	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	blockade	blockade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	supplying	supply	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	supplies	supplies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	17	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
26	1948	1948	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
29	1949	1949	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | participle |  | the Berlin airlift *not said here* |  |  |  | by the three western Allies | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by ally=Destination |
| 2 | **overcome** | past | the Berlin airlift | this blockade |  |  | june; may |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot blockade=Theme |
| 3 | **supply** | gerund | the Berlin airlift *not said here* | food and other supplies | the city |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to city=Recipient |

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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, «Berlin», 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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