Poland, sentence 38
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The Polish tribes emerged following the second wave of the Migration Period around the 6th century AD; they were Slavic and may have included assimilated remnants of peoples that earlier dwelled in the area.
Who acts: Polish tribes, findings · What happens: emerge, follow, be, include, assimilate, dwelle · To what, where: second wave, assimilated remnants, peoples, area, Migration Period
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Poland». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Polish tribes, findings), 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 | 3 tribes | det |
| 2 | Polish | polish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tribes | amod |
| 3 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 emerged | nsubj |
| 4 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 emerged | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wave | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 wave | amod |
| 8 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 following | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Period | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Period | det |
| 11 | Migration | Migration | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Period | compound |
| 12 | Period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wave | nmod |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 AD | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 AD | det |
| 15 | 6th | 6th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 17 AD | amod |
| 16 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 AD | compound |
| 17 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Period | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 Slavic | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 Slavic | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Slavic | cop |
| 21 | Slavic | slavic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 emerged | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 included | cc |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 included | aux |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 included | aux |
| 25 | included | include | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 Slavic | conj |
| 26 | assimilated | assimilate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 remnants | amod |
| 27 | remnants | remnant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 included | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 peoples | case |
| 29 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 remnants | nmod |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 dwelled | obj |
| 31 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 dwelled | advmod |
| 32 | dwelled | dwelle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 peoples | acl:relcl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 area | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 area | det |
| 35 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dwelled | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 emerged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | emerge | past | the Polish tribes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | the Polish tribes not said here | the second wave of the Migration Period around the 6th century AD | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | findings = finding | slavic property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | include | may · perfect | findings = finding not said here | assimilated remnants of peoples | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remnant=Theme | ||||
| 5 | assimilate | participle | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | dwelle | past | peoples | the area | early property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | wave | the Migration Period around the 6th century AD | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Poland», 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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