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title: As a response to onslaughts by Avars, the local Slavic tribes rebell… — Bratislava · tree and pragmatics
description: As a response to onslaughts by Avars, the local Slavic tribes rebelled and established Samo's Empire (623–658), the first known Slavic political entity. Who acts: local Slavic tribes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bratislava» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bratislava, sentence 42

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From Wikipedia, [«Bratislava»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratislava), 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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As a response to onslaughts by Avars, the local Slavic tribes rebelled and established Samo's Empire (623–658), the first known Slavic political entity.

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**Who acts:** local Slavic tribes · **What happens:** rebel, establish, know · **To what, where:** first known Slavic political entity, Empire

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bratislava». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (local Slavic tribes), 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:Bratislava:42
# text = As a response to onslaughts by Avars, the local Slavic tribes rebelled and established Samo's Empire (623–658), the first known Slavic political entity.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	onslaughts	onslaught	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Avars	Avars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Slavic	slavic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	rebelled	rebel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	Samo	Samo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	623	623	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	658	658	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
26	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
27	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
28	Slavic	slavic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	entity	entity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rebel** | past | the local Slavic tribes | the first known Slavic political entity |  |  |  | as a response to onslaughts by Avars | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **establish** | past | the local Slavic tribes *not said here* | Samo's Empire |  |  |  | 623 – 658 *obl* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Patient |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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, «Bratislava», 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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