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title: The most powerful ruler of the Hunnic Empire was Attila the Hun (434… — Hungary · tree and pragmatics
description: The most powerful ruler of the Hunnic Empire was Attila the Hun (434–453), who later became a central figure in Hungarian mythology. Who acts: powerful ruler, Attila. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Hungary» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Hungary, sentence 39

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From Wikipedia, [«Hungary»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary), 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 most powerful ruler of the Hunnic Empire was Attila the Hun (434–453), who later became a central figure in Hungarian mythology.

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**Who acts:** powerful ruler, Attila · **What happens:** be, become · **To what, where:** Attila, central figure

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Hungary». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (powerful ruler, Attila), 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:Hungary:39
# text = The most powerful ruler of the Hunnic Empire was Attila the Hun (434–453), who later became a central figure in Hungarian mythology.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Hunnic	Hunnic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	Attila	Attila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Hun	Hun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	434	434	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	453	453	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
21	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Hungarian	hungarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	mythology	mythology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the powerful ruler of the Hunnic Empire | Attila |  |  |  | the Hun *appos*; 434 – 453 *list* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | Attila | a central figure in Hungarian mythology |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; late *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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, «Hungary», 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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