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title: East Germany remained under political and military control by the So… — Germany · tree and pragmatics
description: East Germany remained under political and military control by the Soviet Union via occupation forces and became an Eastern Bloc state, joining the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact and Comecon. Who acts: East. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Germany» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Germany, sentence 121

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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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East Germany remained under political and military control by the Soviet Union via occupation forces and became an Eastern Bloc state, joining the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact and Comecon.

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**Who acts:** East · **What happens:** remain, become, join, lead · **To what, where:** political control, Eastern Bloc state, led Warsaw Pact, Soviet

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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 (East), 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:121
# text = East Germany remained under political and military control by the Soviet Union via occupation forces and became an Eastern Bloc state, joining the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact and Comecon.
1	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	via	via	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Bloc	bloc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	joining	join	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
25	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
28	Warsaw	Warsaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Pact	Pact	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Comecon	Comecon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | East |  |  | political control |  | by the Soviet Union; via occupation forces | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under control=Location |
| 2 | **become** | past | East *not said here* | a Eastern Bloc state |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **join** | gerund | East *not said here* | the led Warsaw Pact and Comecon |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pact=Patient |
| 4 | **lead** | participle |  | Soviet |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |

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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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