Skopje, sentence 155

From Wikipedia, «Skopje», 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.

Archaeological research suggests that the settlement always belonged to the same culture, which progressively evolved due to contacts with Balkan and Danube cultures, and later with the Aegean.

Who acts: Archaeological research, settlement, same culture · What happens: suggest, belong, evolve · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Skopje». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Archaeological research, settlement, same culture), 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	Archaeological	archaeological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 research	amod
2	research	research	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 suggests	nsubj
3	suggests	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 belonged	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 settlement	det
6	settlement	settlement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 belonged	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 belonged	advmod
8	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 suggests	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 culture	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 culture	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 culture	amod
12	culture	culture	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 belonged	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 evolved	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 evolved	nsubj
15	progressively	progressively	ADV	_	16 evolved	advmod
16	evolved	evolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 culture	acl:relcl
17	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	19 contacts	case
18	to	to	ADP	_	17 due	fixed
19	contacts	contact	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 evolved	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	24 cultures	case
21	Balkan	Balkan	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 cultures	compound
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Danube	cc
23	Danube	Danube	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Balkan	conj
24	cultures	culture	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 contacts	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 later	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 later	cc
27	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 suggests	advmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 Aegean	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Aegean	det
30	Aegean	Aegean	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 later	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 suggests	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present	Archaeological research	late property	vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	belong	past	the settlement	to the same culture; always property	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	evolve	past	the same culture	due contacts with Balkan cultures; progressively property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Skopje», 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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Skopje, sentence 155