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title: The area remained part of the Byzantine Empire, but was often raided… — North Macedonia · tree and pragmatics
description: The area remained part of the Byzantine Empire, but was often raided and settled by Slavic tribes beginning in the 6th century CE. Who acts: area, Slavic tribes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Macedonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Macedonia, sentence 10

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From Wikipedia, [«North Macedonia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Macedonia), 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 area remained part of the Byzantine Empire, but was often raided and settled by Slavic tribes beginning in the 6th century CE.

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**Who acts:** area, Slavic tribes · **What happens:** remain, raid, settle, begin · **To what, where:** part, 6th century CE

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «North Macedonia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (area, Slavic tribes), 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:North_Macedonia:10
# text = The area remained part of the Byzantine Empire, but was often raided and settled by Slavic tribes beginning in the 6th century CE.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Byzantine	Byzantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	raided	raid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Slavic	slavic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	6th	6th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
23	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	CE	ce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | the area | part of the Byzantine Empire |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Attribute |
| 2 | **raid** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **settle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by Slavic tribes | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **begin** | gerund | Slavic tribes *not said here* |  |  | the 6th century CE |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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, «North Macedonia», 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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