Skopje, sentence 541
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.
The first motorways were built during the Yugoslav period, when Skopje was linked through the Brotherhood and Unity Highway to, what was then, the Yugoslav capital Belgrade to the North, and the Greek border to the South.
Who acts: Brotherhood · What happens: build, link, be · To what, where: first motorways, Skopje, Brotherhood
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 (Brotherhood), 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 motorways | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 motorways | amod |
| 3 | motorways | motorway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 built | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 built | aux:pass |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | during | during | ADP | _ | 9 period | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 period | det |
| 8 | Yugoslav | Yugoslav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 period | compound |
| 9 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 linked | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 linked | advmod |
| 12 | Skopje | Skopje | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 linked | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 linked | aux:pass |
| 14 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 built | parataxis |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 Brotherhood | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Brotherhood | det |
| 17 | Brotherhood | Brotherhood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 linked | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Unity | cc |
| 19 | Unity | Unity | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Brotherhood | conj |
| 20 | Highway | Highway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Unity | flat |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Brotherhood | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 then | punct |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 then | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 then | cop |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 Brotherhood | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Belgrade | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 capital | det |
| 28 | Yugoslav | Yugoslav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 capital | compound |
| 29 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Belgrade | compound |
| 30 | Belgrade | Belgrade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 then | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 North | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 North | det |
| 33 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Belgrade | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 border | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 border | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 border | det |
| 37 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 border | amod |
| 38 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | obl |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 South | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 South | det |
| 41 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 border | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | the first motorways | during the Yugoslav period | the Greek border to the South obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 2 | link | past · passive | Skopje | the Brotherhood and Unity | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the Brotherhood and Unity | capital Belgrade to the North conj; then property | tree rules |
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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