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title: The Frankish overlordship ended during the reign of Mislav, or his s… — Croatia · tree and pragmatics
description: The Frankish overlordship ended during the reign of Mislav, or his successor Trpimir I. The native Croatian royal dynasty was founded by duke Trpimir I in the mid 9th century, who defeated the Byzantine and Bulgarian forces. Who acts: Frankish overlordship, duke, 9th century. A sentence of Wikipedia
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# Croatia, sentence 59

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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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The Frankish overlordship ended during the reign of Mislav, or his successor Trpimir I. The native Croatian royal dynasty was founded by duke Trpimir I in the mid 9th century, who defeated the Byzantine and Bulgarian forces.

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**Who acts:** Frankish overlordship, duke, 9th century · **What happens:** end, found, defeat · **To what, where:** successor, Byzantine

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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 (Frankish overlordship, duke, 9th century), 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:59
# text = The Frankish overlordship ended during the reign of Mislav, or his successor Trpimir I. The native Croatian royal dynasty was founded by duke Trpimir I in the mid 9th century, who defeated the Byzantine and Bulgarian forces.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Frankish	frankish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	overlordship	overlordship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	during	during	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Mislav	Mislav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	successor	successor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	Trpimir	Trpimir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	Croatian	croatian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	duke	duke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	Trpimir	Trpimir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	mid	mid	X	AFX	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	9th	9th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Byzantine	Byzantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	Bulgarian	bulgarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | past | the Frankish overlordship |  |  |  | during the reign of Mislav |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **found** | past · passive | duke | overlordship's successor |  |  | century | the native Croatian royal dynasty *nsubj:pass*; I *nsubj* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **defeat** | past | the 9th century | the Byzantine and Bulgarian forces |  |  |  |  | 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, «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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