Slovakia, sentence 116
From Wikipedia, «Slovakia», 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.
Their armies' advance may have been promoted by continuous wars among the countries of the region whose rulers still hired them occasionally to intervene in their struggles.
Who acts: continuous wars, rulers, armies, Hungarians · What happens: promote, hire, intervene, advance, struggle · To what, where: advance, Hungarians, struggles
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Slovakia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (continuous wars, rulers, armies, Hungarians), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 armies | nmod:poss |
| 2 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 advance | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 armies | case |
| 4 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 promoted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 promoted | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 promoted | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 promoted | aux:pass |
| 8 | promoted | promote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 wars | case |
| 10 | continuous | continuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wars | amod |
| 11 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 promoted | obl |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 countries | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 countries | det |
| 14 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 promoted | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 region | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 region | det |
| 17 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 countries | nmod |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 rulers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hired | nsubj |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 hired | advmod |
| 21 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 region | acl:relcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hired | obj |
| 23 | occasionally | occasionally | ADV | _ | 25 intervene | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 intervene | mark |
| 25 | intervene | intervene | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hired | xcomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 struggles | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 struggles | nmod:poss |
| 28 | struggles | struggle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 intervene | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 promoted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promote | may · perfect · passive | continuous wars | Hungarians's armies's advance | among the countries of the region | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | hire | past | rulers | Hungarians = hungarian | still | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 3 | intervene | to-infinitive | rulers not said here | Hungarians's struggles | occasionally property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | advance | Hungarians's armies | nom advance «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | struggle | Hungarians = hungarian | nom struggle «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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