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title: After the Reichstag fire, a decree abrogated basic civil rights, and… — Germany · tree and pragmatics
description: After the Reichstag fire, a decree abrogated basic civil rights, and the first Nazi concentration camp opened. Who acts: decree, first Nazi concentration camp. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Germany» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Germany, sentence 89

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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 Reichstag fire, a decree abrogated basic civil rights, and the first Nazi concentration camp opened.

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**Who acts:** decree, first Nazi concentration camp · **What happens:** abrogate, open · **To what, where:** basic civil rights

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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 (decree, first Nazi concentration camp), 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:89
# text = After the Reichstag fire, a decree abrogated basic civil rights, and the first Nazi concentration camp opened.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Reichstag	Reichstag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	abrogated	abrogate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	basic	basic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
16	Nazi	Nazi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	concentration	concentration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abrogate** | participle | a decree | basic civil rights |  |  | after the Reichstag fire |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | past | the first Nazi concentration camp |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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