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title: From the 6th century into the 7th century, the Slavs crossed the Dan… — Albania · tree and pragmatics
description: From the 6th century into the 7th century, the Slavs crossed the Danube and largely absorbed the indigenous Greeks, Illyrians, and Thracians in the Balkans; thus, the Illyrians were mentioned for the last time in historical records in the 7th century. Who acts: Slavs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Alba
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# Albania, sentence 71

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From Wikipedia, [«Albania»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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From the 6th century into the 7th century, the Slavs crossed the Danube and largely absorbed the indigenous Greeks, Illyrians, and Thracians in the Balkans; thus, the Illyrians were mentioned for the last time in historical records in the 7th century.

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**Who acts:** Slavs · **What happens:** cross, absorb, mention · **To what, where:** Danube, indigenous Greeks, Illyrians

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Albania». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Slavs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Albania:71
# text = From the 6th century into the 7th century, the Slavs crossed the Danube and largely absorbed the indigenous Greeks, Illyrians, and Thracians in the Balkans; thus, the Illyrians were mentioned for the last time in historical records in the 7th century.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	6th	6th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	7th	7th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Slavs	Slav	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Danube	Danube	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	absorbed	absorb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Illyrians	Illyrian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Thracians	Thracian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Balkans	Balkan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
30	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Illyrians	Illyrian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	7th	7th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	46	amod	_	_
46	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | the Slavs | the Danube |  |  | century |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danube=Patient |
| 2 | **absorb** | past | the Slavs *not said here* | the indigenous Greeks and Illyrians |  |  |  | Thracians in the Balkans *obl*; largely *property* | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal greek=Theme |
| 3 | **mention** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | the Illyrians |  |  | time | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Albania», 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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