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title: Christianisation of Croats began in the 7th century at the time of a… — Croatia · tree and pragmatics
description: Christianisation of Croats began in the 7th century at the time of archon Porga of Croatia, initially probably encompassed only the elite and related people, but mostly finished by the 9th century. Who acts: Christianisation. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Croatia» with its dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Croatia, sentence 58

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From Wikipedia, [«Croatia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia), 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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Christianisation of Croats began in the 7th century at the time of archon Porga of Croatia, initially probably encompassed only the elite and related people, but mostly finished by the 9th century.

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**Who acts:** Christianisation · **What happens:** begin, encompass, finish · **To what, where:** elite people

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Croatia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christianisation), 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:Croatia:58
# text = Christianisation of Croats began in the 7th century at the time of archon Porga of Croatia, initially probably encompassed only the elite and related people, but mostly finished by the 9th century.
1	Christianisation	Christianisation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Croats	croat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	7th	7th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	archon	archon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	Porga	Porga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Croatia	Croatia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	initially	initially	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	encompassed	encompass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	elite	elite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	9th	9th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Christianisation of Croats |  |  |  | century; time |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **encompass** | past | Christianisation of Croats *not said here* | the elite people |  |  |  | initially, probably *property* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **finish** | participle | Christianisation of Croats *not said here* |  |  |  | century | mostly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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, «Croatia», 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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