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title: In the early years of the 20th century, Minsk was a major centre for… — Minsk · tree and pragmatics
description: In the early years of the 20th century, Minsk was a major centre for the worker's movement in Belarus. Who acts: Minsk, worker. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Minsk» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Minsk, sentence 68

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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 the early years of the 20th century, Minsk was a major centre for the worker's movement in Belarus.

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**Who acts:** Minsk, worker · **What happens:** be, move · **To what, where:** major centre, Belarus

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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 (Minsk, worker), 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:68
# text = In the early years of the 20th century, Minsk was a major centre for the worker's movement in Belarus.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	Minsk	Minsk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Belarus	Belarus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Minsk | a major centre |  |  | year | for the worker's movement in Belarus | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** |  | the worker |  |  | Belarus |  |  | nom movement «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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