Croatia, sentence 9
From Wikipedia, «Croatia», 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.
Settled as two duchies a century later, Croatia was granted independence in 878 under Duke Branimir and elevated into a kingdom under King Tomislav in 925.
Who acts: Duke · What happens: settle, grant, elevate · To what, where: Croatia, 878, kingdom
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Croatia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke), 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 | Settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 duchies | case |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 duchies | nummod |
| 4 | duchies | duchy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Settled | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 century | det |
| 6 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 duchies | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Settled | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 granted | punct |
| 9 | Croatia | Croatia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 granted | aux:pass |
| 11 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Settled | conj |
| 12 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 granted | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 878 | case |
| 14 | 878 | 878 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 granted | obl |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 Duke | case |
| 16 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 granted | obl:agent |
| 17 | Branimir | Branimir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Duke | flat |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 elevated | cc |
| 19 | elevated | elevate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Settled | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 kingdom | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 kingdom | det |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 elevated | obl |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 Tomislav | case |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Tomislav | compound |
| 25 | Tomislav | Tomislav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 kingdom | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 925 | case |
| 27 | 925 | 925 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 elevated | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | participle | as two duchies a century; late property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | grant | past · passive | Duke | Croatia | 878 | independence obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent subject=Goal independence=Theme | ||
| 3 | elevate | participle | a kingdom under King Tomislav | in 925 | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent into kingdom=Destination in 925=Initial_Location |
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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