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title: After the surrender of Nazi Germany, the Allies de jure abolished th… — Germany · tree and pragmatics
description: After the surrender of Nazi Germany, the Allies de jure abolished the German state and partitioned Berlin and Germany's remaining territory into four occupation zones. Who acts: Allies. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Germany» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Germany, sentence 111

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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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After the surrender of Nazi Germany, the Allies de jure abolished the German state and partitioned Berlin and Germany's remaining territory into four occupation zones.

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**Who acts:** Allies · **What happens:** abolish, partition, surrender · **To what, where:** German state, remaining territory, four occupation zones, Nazi

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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 (Allies), 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:111
# text = After the surrender of Nazi Germany, the Allies de jure abolished the German state and partitioned Berlin and Germany's remaining territory into four occupation zones.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	surrender	surrender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Nazi	Nazi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Allies	Ally	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	conj	_	_
11	jure	jure	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat	_	_
12	abolished	abolish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	partitioned	partition	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	Berlin	Berlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
22	remaining	remaining	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	zones	zone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abolish** | past | the Allies | the German state |  |  | after the surrender of Nazi |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Theme |
| 2 | **partition** | past | the Allies *not said here* | Berlin and Germany's remaining territory |  | four occupation zones |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Patient |
| 3 | **surrender** |  |  | Nazi |  |  |  |  | nom surrender «feeling 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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**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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