--- title: Roman Sorkin (born 1996), Belarusian-born Israeli basketball player… — Minsk · tree and pragmatics description: Roman Sorkin (born 1996), Belarusian-born Israeli basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League Who acts: Roman Sorkin. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Minsk» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Minsk/483/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Minsk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Minsk/) / 483 # Minsk, sentence 483 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. Roman Sorkin (born 1996), Belarusian-born Israeli basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League **Who acts:** Roman Sorkin · **What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** 1996, Roman Sorkin 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 (Roman Sorkin), 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:483 # text = Roman Sorkin (born 1996), Belarusian-born Israeli basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League 1 Roman roman ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Sorkin Sorkin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 5 1996 1996 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 Belarusian Belarusian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 Israeli Israeli ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 basketball basketball NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 player player NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 xcomp _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 Israeli Israeli ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 17 Basketball Basketball PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Premier Premier PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 League League PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | participle | Roman Sorkin *not said here* | 1996 | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1996=Patient | | 2 | **bear** | participle · passive | | Roman Sorkin | | | | in the Israeli Premier League; Belarusian *nsubj:pass*; Israeli basketball player *xcomp* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 482](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Minsk/482/) - next →: [sentence 484](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Minsk/484/) - ↑ back to [Minsk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Minsk/)