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title: After the fall of the communist-led government in East Germany, Germ… — Germany · tree and pragmatics
description: After the fall of the communist-led government in East Germany, German reunification saw the former East German states join the FRG on 3 October 1990. Who acts: German reunification, former German states. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Germany» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Germany, sentence 16

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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 fall of the communist-led government in East Germany, German reunification saw the former East German states join the FRG on 3 October 1990.

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**Who acts:** German reunification, former German states · **What happens:** lead, see, join · **To what, where:** FRG, 3 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (German reunification, former German states), 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:16
# text = After the fall of the communist-led government in East Germany, German reunification saw the former East German states join the FRG on 3 October 1990.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	communist	communist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	reunification	reunification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	FRG	FRG	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
27	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
28	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **see** | past | German reunification |  |  |  | after the fall of the led government in East |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **join** | present | the former German states | the FRG |  | 3 |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frg=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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