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title: In the 9th century, the castles at Bratislava (Brezalauspurk) and De… — Bratislava · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 9th century, the castles at Bratislava (Brezalauspurk) and Devín (Dowina) were important centres of the Slavic states: the Principality of Nitra and Great Moravia. Who acts: castles. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bratislava» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bratislava, sentence 43

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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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In the 9th century, the castles at Bratislava (Brezalauspurk) and Devín (Dowina) were important centres of the Slavic states: the Principality of Nitra and Great Moravia.

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**Who acts:** castles · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** important centres

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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 (castles), 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:43
# text = In the 9th century, the castles at Bratislava (Brezalauspurk) and Devín (Dowina) were important centres of the Slavic states: the Principality of Nitra and Great Moravia.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	9th	9th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Bratislava	Bratislava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Brezalauspurk	Brezalauspurk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Devín	Devín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Dowina	Dowina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	centres	centre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Slavic	slavic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Principality	principality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Nitra	Nitra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	Moravia	Moravia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the castles at Bratislava and Devín | important centres |  |  |  | of the Slavic states  the Principality of Nitra and Great | tree rules |

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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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