Bratislava, sentence 42
From Wikipedia, «Bratislava», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
As a response to onslaughts by Avars, the local Slavic tribes rebelled and established Samo's Empire (623–658), the first known Slavic political entity.
Who acts: local Slavic tribes · What happens: rebel, establish, know · To what, where: first known Slavic political entity, Empire
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bratislava». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (local Slavic tribes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 response | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 response | det |
| 3 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rebelled | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 onslaughts | case |
| 5 | onslaughts | onslaught | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 response | nmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Avars | case |
| 7 | Avars | Avars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 onslaughts | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 response | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tribes | det |
| 10 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tribes | amod |
| 11 | Slavic | slavic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tribes | amod |
| 12 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rebelled | nsubj |
| 13 | rebelled | rebel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 established | cc |
| 15 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rebelled | conj |
| 16 | Samo | Samo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Empire | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Samo | case |
| 18 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 established | obj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 623 | punct |
| 20 | 623 | 623 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 established | obl |
| 21 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 22 658 | case |
| 22 | 658 | 658 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 623 | nmod |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 623 | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 entity | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 entity | det |
| 26 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 entity | amod |
| 27 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 entity | amod |
| 28 | Slavic | slavic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 entity | amod |
| 29 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 entity | amod |
| 30 | entity | entity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rebelled | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 rebelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rebel | past | the local Slavic tribes | the first known Slavic political entity | as a response to onslaughts by Avars | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | establish | past | the local Slavic tribes not said here | Samo's Empire | 623 – 658 obl | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Patient | |||
| 3 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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