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title: During the later stages of and after World War II, around 12 million… — Germany · tree and pragmatics
description: During the later stages of and after World War II, around 12 million ethnic Germans were expelled from across Eastern Europe, and Germany lost roughly one-quarter of its pre-war territory. Who acts: World War, Germany. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Germany» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Germany, sentence 110

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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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During the later stages of and after World War II, around 12 million ethnic Germans were expelled from across Eastern Europe, and Germany lost roughly one-quarter of its pre-war territory.

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**Who acts:** World War, Germany · **What happens:** expel, lose · **To what, where:** million ethnic Germans, Eastern Europe, one quarter

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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: who acts (World War, Germany), 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:110
# text = During the later stages of and after World War II, around 12 million ethnic Germans were expelled from across Eastern Europe, and Germany lost roughly one-quarter of its pre-war territory.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	stages	stage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	around	around	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
14	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Germans	german	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	expelled	expel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	across	across	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Eastern	Eastern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
27	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	pre-war	pre-war	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expel** | past · passive | World War *not said here* | million ethnic Germans |  | Eastern Europe |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from europe=Source |
| 2 | **lose** | past | Germany | one quarter of quarter's pre-war territory |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=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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