Kosovo, sentence 54

From Wikipedia, «Kosovo», 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 Dardani retained an individuality and continued to maintain social independence after Roman conquest, playing an important role in the formation of new groupings in the Roman era.

Who acts: Dardani · What happens: retain, continue, maintain, play · To what, where: individuality, social independence, important role, formation

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kosovo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dardani), 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 Dardani	det
2	Dardani	Dardani	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 retained	nsubj
3	retained	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 individuality	det
5	individuality	individuality	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 retained	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 continued	cc
7	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 retained	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 maintain	mark
9	maintain	maintain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 continued	xcomp
10	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 independence	amod
11	independence	independence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 maintain	obj
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 conquest	case
13	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 conquest	amod
14	conquest	conquest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 maintain	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 playing	punct
16	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 maintain	advcl
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 role	det
18	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 role	amod
19	role	role	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 playing	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 formation	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 formation	det
22	formation	formation	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 playing	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 groupings	case
24	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 groupings	amod
25	groupings	grouping	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 formation	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 era	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 era	det
28	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 era	amod
29	era	era	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 groupings	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 retained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	retain	past	the Dardani	a individuality			tree rules
2	continue	past	the Dardani not said here				vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	maintain	to-infinitive	the Dardani not said here	social independence		after Roman conquest	vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent independence=Theme
4	play	gerund	the Dardani not said here	a important role	the formation of new groupings in the Roman era		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme

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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Kosovo, sentence 54