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title: The Byzantines inherited the Balkan region following the fall of Rom… — Bulgaria · tree and pragmatics
description: The Byzantines inherited the Balkan region following the fall of Rome in 476, but their prolonged military campaigns against Persia left these territories vulnerable to barbarian incursions. Who acts: Byzantines, prolonged military campaigns. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bulgaria» with its dependency 
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# Bulgaria, sentence 41

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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 Byzantines inherited the Balkan region following the fall of Rome in 476, but their prolonged military campaigns against Persia left these territories vulnerable to barbarian incursions.

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**Who acts:** Byzantines, prolonged military campaigns · **What happens:** inherit, follow, prolong, leave, campaign · **To what, where:** Balkan region, 476, territories

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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 (Byzantines, prolonged military campaigns), 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:41
# text = The Byzantines inherited the Balkan region following the fall of Rome in 476, but their prolonged military campaigns against Persia left these territories vulnerable to barbarian incursions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Byzantines	Byzantine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	inherited	inherit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Balkan	Balkan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	476	476	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	prolonged	prolong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
18	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	campaigns	campaign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	vulnerable	vulnerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	barbarian	barbarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	incursions	incursion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inherit** | past | the Byzantines | the Balkan region |  | 476 |  | follow the fall of Rome | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **prolong** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **leave** | past | Byzantines's prolonged military campaigns against Persia | this territories |  |  |  | vulnerable *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Theme |
| 5 | **campaign** |  | Byzantines *= byzantine* |  |  |  |  | against Persia | nom campaign «event intransitive»: poss=agent against=obl |

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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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