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title: The Slovak National Assembly, meanwhile, called it a "defensive acti… — Bratislava · tree and pragmatics
description: The Slovak National Assembly, meanwhile, called it a "defensive action of the Slovaks themselves, to end the anarchy caused by the flight of the Hungarians." Who acts: Slovak National Assembly, Slovaks. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bratislava» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bratislava, sentence 94

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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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The Slovak National Assembly, meanwhile, called it a "defensive action of the Slovaks themselves, to end the anarchy caused by the flight of the Hungarians."

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**Who acts:** Slovak National Assembly, Slovaks · **What happens:** call, end, cause, act · **To what, where:** annexation, anarchy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Slovak National Assembly, Slovaks), 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:94
# text = The Slovak National Assembly, meanwhile, called it a "defensive action of the Slovaks themselves, to end the anarchy caused by the flight of the Hungarians."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Slovak	Slovak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	defensive	defensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Slovaks	Slovak	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	16	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	end	end	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	anarchy	anarchy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Hungarians	Hungarian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | participle | the Slovak National Assembly *not said here* | annexation |  |  |  | a defensive action of the Slovaks  assemblies *xcomp*; meanwhile *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 2 | **end** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Slovak National Assembly | the anarchy |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector anarchy=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cause** *in a quote* | participle |  | the anarchy *not said here* |  |  |  | by the flight of the Hungarians | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 4 | **act** *in a quote* |  | the Slovaks  assemblies |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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