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title: The Dardani retained an individuality and continued to maintain soci… — Kosovo · tree and pragmatics
description: The Dardani retained an individuality and continued to maintain social independence after Roman conquest, playing an important role in the formation of new groupings in the Roman era. Who acts: Dardani. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kosovo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kosovo, sentence 54

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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 Dardani retained an individuality and continued to maintain social independence after Roman conquest, playing an important role in the formation of new groupings in the Roman era.

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**Who acts:** Dardani · **What happens:** retain, continue, maintain, play · **To what, where:** individuality, social independence, important role, formation

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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 (Dardani), 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:54
# text = The Dardani retained an individuality and continued to maintain social independence after Roman conquest, playing an important role in the formation of new groupings in the Roman era.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dardani	Dardani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	retained	retain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	individuality	individuality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	maintain	maintain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	formation	formation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	groupings	grouping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retain** | past | the Dardani | a individuality |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** | past | the Dardani *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **maintain** | to-infinitive | the Dardani *not said here* | social independence |  |  | after Roman conquest |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent independence=Theme |
| 4 | **play** | gerund | the Dardani *not said here* | a important role |  | the formation of new groupings in the Roman era |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |

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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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