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title: Following Hitler's suicide during the Battle of Berlin, Germany sign… — Germany · tree and pragmatics
description: Following Hitler's suicide during the Battle of Berlin, Germany signed the surrender document on 8 May 1945, ending World War II in Europe and Nazi Germany. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Germany» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Germany, sentence 103

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From Wikipedia, [«Germany»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany), 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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Following Hitler's suicide during the Battle of Berlin, Germany signed the surrender document on 8 May 1945, ending World War II in Europe and Nazi Germany.

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**What happens:** follow, sign, end · **To what, where:** surrender document, 8, World War, Europe

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Germany». 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:Germany:103
# text = Following Hitler's suicide during the Battle of Berlin, Germany signed the surrender document on 8 May 1945, ending World War II in Europe and Nazi Germany.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	Hitler	Hitler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	suicide	suicide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	during	during	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Berlin	Berlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	surrender	surrender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	document	document	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
18	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	1945	1945	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	advcl	_	_
22	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Nazi	Nazi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	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 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sign** | past |  | the surrender document |  | 8  May |  | follow Hitler's suicide during the Battle of Berlin and Germany | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent document=Theme on 8=Destination |
| 3 | **end** | gerund |  | World War |  | Europe and Nazi |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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, «Germany», 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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