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title: The native Albanian name for Western Kosovo is Dukagjini or Dukagjin… — Kosovo · tree and pragmatics
description: The native Albanian name for Western Kosovo is Dukagjini or Dukagjini plateau (Rrafshi i Dukagjinit), having been in use since the 15th–16th century as part of the Sanjak of Dukakin with its capital Peja, and is named after the medieval Albanian Dukagjini family. Who acts: native Albanian name. A se
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# Kosovo, sentence 31

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From Wikipedia, [«Kosovo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo), 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 native Albanian name for Western Kosovo is Dukagjini or Dukagjini plateau (Rrafshi i Dukagjinit), having been in use since the 15th–16th century as part of the Sanjak of Dukakin with its capital Peja, and is named after the medieval Albanian Dukagjini family.

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**Who acts:** native Albanian name · **What happens:** be, name · **To what, where:** Dukagjini, use

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kosovo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (native Albanian name), 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:Kosovo:31
# text = The native Albanian name for Western Kosovo is Dukagjini or Dukagjini plateau (Rrafshi i Dukagjinit), having been in use since the 15th–16th century as part of the Sanjak of Dukakin with its capital Peja, and is named after the medieval Albanian Dukagjini family.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Albanian	Albanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Western	Western	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Kosovo	Kosovo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	Dukagjini	Dukagjini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Dukagjini	dukagjini	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	plateau	plateau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Rrafshi	Rrafshi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	conj	_	_
16	Dukagjinit	Dukagjinit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
23	since	since	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	15th	15th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	16th	16th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
28	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Sanjak	Sanjak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Dukakin	Dukakin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
39	Peja	Peja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
44	after	after	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
46	medieval	medieval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
47	Albanian	Albanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
48	Dukagjini	Dukagjini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the native Albanian name for Western Kosovo | Dukagjini or Dukagjini plateau |  |  |  | Dukagjini plateau *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund · perfect |  |  |  | use and 16th century as part of the Sanjak of Dukakin with part's capital | since the 15th |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** | present · passive |  | Dukagjini or Dukagjini plateau *not said here* |  |  | after the medieval Albanian Dukagjini family |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |

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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, «Kosovo», 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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