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title: The Thracian Plain is roughly triangular, beginning southeast of Sof… — Bulgaria · tree and pragmatics
description: The Thracian Plain is roughly triangular, beginning southeast of Sofia and broadening as it reaches the Black Sea coast. Who acts: Thracian Plain, Southeast. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bulgaria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bulgaria, sentence 140

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From Wikipedia, [«Bulgaria»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria), 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 Thracian Plain is roughly triangular, beginning southeast of Sofia and broadening as it reaches the Black Sea coast.

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**Who acts:** Thracian Plain, Southeast · **What happens:** be, begin, broaden, reach · **To what, where:** southeast, Sea coast

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bulgaria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thracian Plain, Southeast), 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:Bulgaria:140
# text = The Thracian Plain is roughly triangular, beginning southeast of Sofia and broadening as it reaches the Black Sea coast.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Thracian	Thracian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Plain	Plain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	triangular	triangular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	southeast	southeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Sofia	Sofia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	broadening	broaden	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Thracian Plain |  |  |  |  | roughly, triangular *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | gerund | the Thracian Plain *not said here* | southeast of Sofia |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent southeast=Eventuality |
| 3 | **broaden** | gerund | the Thracian Plain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **reach** | present | Southeast | the Sea coast |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent coast=Theme |

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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, «Bulgaria», 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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