--- title: After the last war, the development of the city was linked to the de… — Minsk · tree and pragmatics description: After the last war, the development of the city was linked to the development of industry, especially of R&D-intensive sectors (heavy emphasis of R&D intensive industries in urban development in the USSR is known in Western geography as 'Minsk phenomenon'). Who acts: intensive sectors. 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After the last war, the development of the city was linked to the development of industry, especially of R&D-intensive sectors (heavy emphasis of R&D intensive industries in urban development in the USSR is known in Western geography as 'Minsk phenomenon'). **Who acts:** intensive sectors · **What happens:** link, know, develop · **To what, where:** development, heavy emphasis, Western geography, city, industry 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 (intensive sectors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:230 # text = After the last war, the development of the city was linked to the development of industry, especially of R&D-intensive sectors (heavy emphasis of R&D intensive industries in urban development in the USSR is known in Western geography as 'Minsk phenomenon'). 1 After after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 development development NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 linked link VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 development development NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 industry industry NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 especially especially ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 R R PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 & & CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 23 D D NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 intensive intensive NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 sectors sector NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 appos _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 emphasis emphasis NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 R R PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 & & CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 33 D d ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 intensive intensive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 industries industry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 urban urban ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 development development NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 USSR USSR PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl:relcl _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 Western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 geography geography NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 47 as as ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 Minsk Minsk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 phenomenon phenomenon NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **link** | past · passive | | the development of the city | | | after the last war | to the development of industry; of R & D | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to development=Co-Patient | | 2 | **know** | present · passive | intensive sectors *not said here* | heavy emphasis of R & D intensive industries in urban development in the USSR | | Western geography | | as Minsk phenomenon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as phenomenon=Attribute | | 3 | **develop** | | | the city | | | | | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient | | 4 | **develop** | | | industry | | | | | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 229](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Minsk/229/) - next →: [sentence 231](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Minsk/231/) - ↑ back to [Minsk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Minsk/)