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title: Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939, German and Sovie… — Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939, German and Soviet troops divided the territory of Poland. Who acts: German troops. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ukraine» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ukraine, sentence 135

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From Wikipedia, [«Ukraine»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine), 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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Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939, German and Soviet troops divided the territory of Poland.

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**Who acts:** German troops · **What happens:** follow, divide, invade · **To what, where:** territory, Poland

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ukraine». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (German troops), 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:Ukraine:135
# text = Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939, German and Soviet troops divided the territory of Poland.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	1939	1939	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	14	nsubj	_	_
14	divided	divide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	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 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **divide** | past | German troops | the territory of Poland |  |  |  | follow the invasion of Poland in September  1939 | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Theme |
| 3 | **invade** |  |  | Poland |  |  |  | in September  1939 | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient in=obl |

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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, «Ukraine», 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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