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title: A Workers' Soviet was established in Minsk in October 1917, drawing… — Minsk · tree and pragmatics
description: A Workers' Soviet was established in Minsk in October 1917, drawing much of its support from disaffected soldiers and workers. Who acts: Revolution. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Minsk» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Minsk, sentence 76

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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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A Workers' Soviet was established in Minsk in October 1917, drawing much of its support from disaffected soldiers and workers.

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**Who acts:** Revolution · **What happens:** establish, draw, disaffect, support · **To what, where:** Workers, Minsk, much, disaffected soldiers

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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 (Revolution), 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:76
# text = A Workers' Soviet was established in Minsk in October 1917, drawing much of its support from disaffected soldiers and workers.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Minsk	Minsk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	1917	1917	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	disaffected	disaffect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past · passive |  | a Workers |  | Minsk | october | Soviet *nsubj* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **draw** | gerund |  | much of Revolution's support |  | disaffected soldiers and workers |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent much=Theme from soldier=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **disaffect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **support** |  | Revolution |  |  |  |  |  | nom support «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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