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title: The Svislach River, which flows across the city from the northwest t… — Minsk · tree and pragmatics
description: The Svislach River, which flows across the city from the northwest to the southeast, is in the urstromtal, an ancient river valley formed by water flowing from melting ice sheets at the end of the last Ice Age. Who acts: Svislach River, water. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Minsk» with its dependency tr
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# Minsk, sentence 120

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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 Svislach River, which flows across the city from the northwest to the southeast, is in the urstromtal, an ancient river valley formed by water flowing from melting ice sheets at the end of the last Ice Age.

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**Who acts:** Svislach River, water · **What happens:** flow, be, form, melt · **To what, where:** city, urstromtal, ancient river valley, ice sheets, end

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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 (Svislach River, water), 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:120
# text = The Svislach River, which flows across the city from the northwest to the southeast, is in the urstromtal, an ancient river valley formed by water flowing from melting ice sheets at the end of the last Ice Age.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Svislach	Svislach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	across	across	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	northwest	northwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	southeast	southeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	urstromtal	urstromtal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
26	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	melting	melt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
32	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | present | the Svislach River |  |  | the city from the northwest to the southeast |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Svislach River |  |  | the urstromtal |  | a ancient river valley *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** | participle |  | a ancient river valley *not said here* |  |  |  | by water | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by water=Location |
| 4 | **flow** | gerund | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **melt** | gerund | water *not said here* | ice sheets |  |  | at the end of the last Ice Age |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sheet=Result |

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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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