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title: The population declined starting with the Great Famine in 1315, foll… — Germany · tree and pragmatics
description: The population declined starting with the Great Famine in 1315, followed by the Black Death of 1348–1350. Who acts: population. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Germany» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Germany, sentence 47

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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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The population declined starting with the Great Famine in 1315, followed by the Black Death of 1348–1350.

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**Who acts:** population · **What happens:** decline, not start, follow · **To what, where:** 1315

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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 (population), 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:47
# text = The population declined starting with the Great Famine in 1315, followed by the Black Death of 1348–1350.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	declined	decline	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	starting	start	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Famine	Famine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1315	1315	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1348	1348	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	1350	1350	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decline** | past | the population |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **start** | gerund | the population *not said here* |  |  | 1315 |  | with the Great Famine | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with famine=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **follow** | participle | the population *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the Black Death of 1348 – 1350 | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by death=Location |

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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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