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title: After the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, German forces occupied Minsk on 2… — Minsk · tree and pragmatics
description: After the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, German forces occupied Minsk on 21 February 1918. Who acts: German forces. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Minsk» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Minsk, sentence 77

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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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After the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, German forces occupied Minsk on 21 February 1918.

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**Who acts:** German forces · **What happens:** occupy · **To what, where:** Minsk, 21

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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 (German forces), 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:77
# text = After the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, German forces occupied Minsk on 21 February 1918.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Brest	Brest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Litovsk	Litovsk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Minsk	Minsk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
15	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occupy** | past | German forces | Minsk |  | 21  February | after the Treaty of Brest and Litovsk |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus minsk=Experiencer |

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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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