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title: Within a few days the rebels captured the towns of Gostivar, Struga… — North Macedonia · tree and pragmatics
description: Within a few days the rebels captured the towns of Gostivar, Struga and Ohrid, expelling the Serbian troops. Who acts: rebels. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Macedonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Macedonia, sentence 102

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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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Within a few days the rebels captured the towns of Gostivar, Struga and Ohrid, expelling the Serbian troops.

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**Who acts:** rebels · **What happens:** capture, expel · **To what, where:** towns, Serbian troops

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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 (rebels), 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:102
# text = Within a few days the rebels captured the towns of Gostivar, Struga and Ohrid, expelling the Serbian troops.
1	Within	within	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rebels	rebel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	captured	capture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Gostivar	Gostivar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Struga	Struga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Ohrid	Ohrid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	expelling	expel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Serbian	serbian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | past | the rebels | the towns of Gostivar and Struga and Ohrid |  |  | day |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
| 2 | **expel** | gerund | the rebels *not said here* | the Serbian troops |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troops=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, «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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