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title: In 1129, the Principality of Minsk was annexed by Kiev, the dominant… — Minsk · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1129, the Principality of Minsk was annexed by Kiev, the dominant principality of Kievan Rus'; however in 1146 the Polotsk dynasty regained control of the principality. Who acts: Kiev, 1146. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Minsk» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Minsk, sentence 31

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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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In 1129, the Principality of Minsk was annexed by Kiev, the dominant principality of Kievan Rus'; however in 1146 the Polotsk dynasty regained control of the principality.

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**Who acts:** Kiev, 1146 · **What happens:** annex, regain, control · **To what, where:** Principality, 1129

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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 (Kiev, 1146), 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:31
# text = In 1129, the Principality of Minsk was annexed by Kiev, the dominant principality of Kievan Rus'; however in 1146 the Polotsk dynasty regained control of the principality.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1129	1129	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Principality	principality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Minsk	Minsk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	annexed	annex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Kiev	Kiev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	dominant	dominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	principality	principality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Kievan	Kievan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	Rus	Rus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	however	however	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1146	1146	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Polotsk	Polotsk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	regained	regain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	principality	principality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **annex** | past · passive | Kiev | the Principality of Minsk |  | 1129 |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **regain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **control** |  | 1146 |  |  |  |  | of the principality; the Polotsk dynasty *nsubj* | 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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