Bulgaria, sentence 41
From Wikipedia, «Bulgaria», 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.
The Byzantines inherited the Balkan region following the fall of Rome in 476, but their prolonged military campaigns against Persia left these territories vulnerable to barbarian incursions.
Who acts: Byzantines, prolonged military campaigns · What happens: inherit, follow, prolong, leave, campaign · To what, where: Balkan region, 476, territories
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bulgaria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Byzantines, prolonged military campaigns), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Byzantines | det |
| 2 | Byzantines | Byzantine | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 inherited | nsubj |
| 3 | inherited | inherit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 region | det |
| 5 | Balkan | Balkan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 region | compound |
| 6 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 inherited | obj |
| 7 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 fall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fall | det |
| 9 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 region | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Rome | case |
| 11 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fall | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 476 | case |
| 13 | 476 | 476 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 inherited | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 left | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 left | cc |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 campaigns | nmod:poss |
| 17 | prolonged | prolong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 campaigns | amod |
| 18 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 campaigns | amod |
| 19 | campaigns | campaign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 left | nsubj |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 Persia | case |
| 21 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 campaigns | nmod |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 inherited | conj |
| 23 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 territories | det |
| 24 | territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 left | obj |
| 25 | vulnerable | vulnerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 left | xcomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 incursions | case |
| 27 | barbarian | barbarian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 incursions | amod |
| 28 | incursions | incursion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 vulnerable | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 inherited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inherit | past | the Byzantines | the Balkan region | 476 | follow the fall of Rome | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Theme | ||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | prolong | participle | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | leave | past | Byzantines's prolonged military campaigns against Persia | this territories | vulnerable property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Theme | |||
| 5 | campaign | Byzantines = byzantine | against Persia | nom campaign «event intransitive»: poss=agent against=obl |
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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