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title: The historical centre was replaced in the 1940s and 1950s by Stalini… — Minsk · tree and pragmatics
description: The historical centre was replaced in the 1940s and 1950s by Stalinist architecture, which favoured grand buildings, broad avenues and wide squares. Who acts: Stalinist architecture. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Minsk» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Minsk, sentence 102

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From Wikipedia, [«Minsk»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk), 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 historical centre was replaced in the 1940s and 1950s by Stalinist architecture, which favoured grand buildings, broad avenues and wide squares.

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**Who acts:** Stalinist architecture · **What happens:** replace, favour · **To what, where:** historical centre, 1940s, grand buildings

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Minsk». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stalinist architecture), 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:Minsk:102
# text = The historical centre was replaced in the 1940s and 1950s by Stalinist architecture, which favoured grand buildings, broad avenues and wide squares.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	1940s	1940	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	1950s	1950	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Stalinist	Stalinist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	favoured	favour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	avenues	avenue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	squares	square	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **replace** | past · passive | Stalinist architecture | the historical centre |  | the 1940s and 1950s |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **favour** | past | Stalinist architecture | grand buildings and broad avenues and wide squares |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «Minsk», 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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