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title: In 1846, the Moscow-Warsaw road was laid through Minsk. — Minsk · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1846, the Moscow-Warsaw road was laid through Minsk. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Minsk» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Minsk, sentence 61

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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 1846, the Moscow-Warsaw road was laid through Minsk.

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**What happens:** lay · **To what, where:** Warsaw road, 1846

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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: 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:61
# text = In 1846, the Moscow-Warsaw road was laid through Minsk.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1846	1846	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Warsaw	Warsaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Minsk	Minsk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past · passive |  | the Warsaw road |  | 1846 |  | through Minsk | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 1846=Destination |

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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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