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title: The Dardani established the Kingdom of Dardania, with its political… — Kosovo · tree and pragmatics
description: The Dardani established the Kingdom of Dardania, with its political and cultural center likely located near present-day Lipjan (ancient Ulpiana). Who acts: Dardani. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kosovo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kosovo, sentence 7

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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 established the Kingdom of Dardania, with its political and cultural center likely located near present-day Lipjan (ancient Ulpiana).

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**Who acts:** Dardani · **What happens:** establish, locate · **To what, where:** Kingdom, political center

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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:7
# text = The Dardani established the Kingdom of Dardania, with its political and cultural center likely located near present-day Lipjan (ancient Ulpiana).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dardani	Dardani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Dardania	Dardania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
11	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	near	near	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	Lipjan	Lipjan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Ulpiana	Ulpiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past | the Dardani | the Kingdom of Dardania |  |  |  | with Dardani's political center | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme with center=Source |
| 2 | **locate** | participle |  | Dardani's political center *not said here* |  |  | day | likely *property* | 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, «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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