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title: A few returned after the war, but were soon expelled without their p… — Bratislava · tree and pragmatics
description: A few returned after the war, but were soon expelled without their properties under the Beneš decrees, part of a widespread expulsion of ethnic Germans from eastern Europe. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bratislava» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bratislava, sentence 119

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From Wikipedia, [«Bratislava»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratislava), 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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A few returned after the war, but were soon expelled without their properties under the Beneš decrees, part of a widespread expulsion of ethnic Germans from eastern Europe.

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**What happens:** return, expel · **To what, where:** ethnic Germans

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bratislava». 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:Bratislava:119
# text = A few returned after the war, but were soon expelled without their properties under the Beneš decrees, part of a widespread expulsion of ethnic Germans from eastern Europe.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	expelled	expel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
12	without	without	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	properties	property	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Beneš	Beneš	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	decrees	decree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	expulsion	expulsion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Germans	German	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | participle |  |  |  |  | after the war |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **expel** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | without authorities's properties under the Beneš decrees; soon *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **expel** |  |  | ethnic Germans from eastern Europe |  |  |  |  | nom expulsion «act 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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