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title: The protesters put flowers at the site where he was detained before… — Minsk · tree and pragmatics
description: The protesters put flowers at the site where he was detained before succumbing to his injuries. Who acts: protesters, concern. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Minsk» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Minsk, sentence 213

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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 protesters put flowers at the site where he was detained before succumbing to his injuries.

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**Who acts:** protesters, concern · **What happens:** put, detain, succumb, injure · **To what, where:** flowers, site, concern

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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 (protesters, concern), 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:213
# text = The protesters put flowers at the site where he was detained before succumbing to his injuries.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	protesters	protester	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	detained	detain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	succumbing	succumb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | the protesters | flowers |  | the site |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme at site=Destination |
| 2 | **detain** | past · passive |  | concern |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **succumb** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to concern's injuries | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to injury=Theme |
| 4 | **injure** |  | concern |  |  |  |  |  | nom injury «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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