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title: Following the Union of Brest, both the Eastern Catholic Churches and… — Minsk · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the Union of Brest, both the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Roman Catholic Church increased in influence. Who acts: Union. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Minsk» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Minsk, sentence 43

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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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Following the Union of Brest, both the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Roman Catholic Church increased in influence.

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**Who acts:** Union · **What happens:** follow, increase · **To what, where:** influence

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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 (Union), 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:43
# text = Following the Union of Brest, both the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Roman Catholic Church increased in influence.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Brest	Brest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc:preconj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Catholic	Catholic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Churches	Church	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Catholic	Catholic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **increase** | past | the Union of Brest both the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Roman Catholic Church |  |  | influence |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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