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title: Soviet forces steamrolled through Eastern and Central Europe in 1944… — Russia · tree and pragmatics
description: Soviet forces steamrolled through Eastern and Central Europe in 1944–1945 and captured Berlin in May 1945. Who acts: Soviet forces. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Russia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Russia, sentence 184

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From Wikipedia, [«Russia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia), 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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Soviet forces steamrolled through Eastern and Central Europe in 1944–1945 and captured Berlin in May 1945.

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**Who acts:** Soviet forces · **What happens:** steamroll, capture · **To what, where:** Soviet forces, Eastern, Berlin

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Russia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soviet 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:Russia:184
# text = Soviet forces steamrolled through Eastern and Central Europe in 1944–1945 and captured Berlin in May 1945.
1	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
3	steamrolled	steamroll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Eastern	Eastern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
8	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1944	1944	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	1945	1945	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
14	captured	capture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Berlin	Berlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	1945	1945	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steamroll** | participle |  | Soviet forces *not said here* |  | Eastern and Central Europe |  | in 1944 – 1945 | tree rules |
| 2 | **capture** | past | Soviet forces | Berlin |  |  | may |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berlin=Theme |

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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, «Russia», 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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