--- title: As some ethnic Greeks identify themselves as Macedonians, unrelated… — North Macedonia · tree and pragmatics description: As some ethnic Greeks identify themselves as Macedonians, unrelated to the Slavic people who are associated with North Macedonia, Greece further objected to the use of the term Macedonian for the neighbouring country's largest ethnic group; it accused the country of appropriating symbols and figures --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/North_Macedonia/307/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [North Macedonia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/North_Macedonia/) / 307 # North Macedonia, sentence 307 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. As some ethnic Greeks identify themselves as Macedonians, unrelated to the Slavic people who are associated with North Macedonia, Greece further objected to the use of the term Macedonian for the neighbouring country's largest ethnic group; it accused the country of appropriating symbols and figures that are historically considered parts of Greece's culture (such as Vergina Sun and Alexander the Great), and of promoting the irredentist concept of a United Macedonia, which would include territories of Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, and Serbia. **Who acts:** ethnic Greeks, Greece, use, irredentist concept · **What happens:** identify, associate, object, accuse, appropriate, consider · **To what, where:** judges, Slavic people, North Macedonia, country, appropriating symbols, irredentist concept 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 (ethnic Greeks, Greece, use, irredentist concept), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:307 # text = As some ethnic Greeks identify themselves as Macedonians, unrelated to the Slavic people who are associated with North Macedonia, Greece further objected to the use of the term Macedonian for the neighbouring country's largest ethnic group; it accused the country of appropriating symbols and figures that are historically considered parts of Greece's culture (such as Vergina Sun and Alexander the Great), and of promoting the irredentist concept of a United Macedonia, which would include territories of Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, and Serbia. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 3 ethnic ethnic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Greeks Greek PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 identify identify VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ _ 6 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Macedonians Macedonian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 unrelated unrelated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Slavic slavic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 associated associate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Macedonia Macedonia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 Greece Greece PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 further further ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 objected object VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 Macedonian Macedonian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 neighbouring neighbouring NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 39 amod _ _ 38 ethnic ethnic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 accused accuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 appropriating appropriate VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 47 amod _ _ 47 symbols symbol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 figures figure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 conj _ _ 50 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 53 nsubj:pass _ _ 51 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 aux:pass _ _ 52 historically historically ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 53 considered consider VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 acl:relcl _ _ 54 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 xcomp _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 56 Greece Greece PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 57 's 's PART POS _ 56 case _ _ 58 culture culture NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod _ _ 59 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 62 case _ _ 61 as as ADP IN _ 60 fixed _ _ 62 Vergina Vergina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 appos _ _ 63 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 62 flat _ _ 64 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 65 Alexander Alexander PROPN NNP Number=Sing 62 conj _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 67 Great Great PROPN NNP Number=Sing 62 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 68 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 69 , , PUNCT , _ 72 punct _ _ 70 and and CCONJ CC _ 72 cc _ _ 71 of of SCONJ IN _ 72 mark _ _ 72 promoting promote VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 advcl _ _ 73 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 75 det _ _ 74 irredentist irredentist NOUN NN Number=Sing 75 compound _ _ 75 concept concept NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 obj _ _ 76 of of ADP IN _ 79 case _ _ 77 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 79 det _ _ 78 United United ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 79 amod _ _ 79 Macedonia Macedonia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 75 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 80 , , PUNCT , _ 83 punct _ _ 81 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 83 nsubj _ _ 82 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 83 aux _ _ 83 include include VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 75 parataxis _ _ 84 territories territory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 83 obj _ _ 85 of of ADP IN _ 86 case _ _ 86 Greece Greece PROPN NNP Number=Sing 84 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 87 , , PUNCT , _ 88 punct _ _ 88 Bulgaria Bulgaria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 86 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 89 , , PUNCT , _ 90 punct _ _ 90 Albania Albania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 86 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 91 , , PUNCT , _ 93 punct _ _ 92 and and CCONJ CC _ 93 cc _ _ 93 Serbia Serbia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 72 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 94 . . PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | present | some ethnic Greeks | judges *= judge* | | | | as Macedonians | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme as macedonian=Attribute | | 2 | **associate** | present · passive | | the Slavic people | | | | with North Macedonia | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with macedonia=Co-Patient | | 3 | **object** *speech: other* | past | Greece | North Macedonia *not said here* | | | | to the use of the term for the neighbouring country's largest ethnic group; further *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **accuse** | past | use | the country of appropriating symbols and figures | | | | | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent country=Theme | | 5 | **appropriate** | gerund | | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **consider** | present · passive | | appropriating symbols and figures | | | | parts of Greece's culture *xcomp*; historically *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | | 7 | **promote** | gerund | use *not said here* | the irredentist concept of a United Macedonia | | | | Serbia *obl* | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent concept=Theme | | 8 | **include** | would | the irredentist concept of a United Macedonia | territories of Greece and Bulgaria and Albania | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Theme | | 9 | **use** | | | the term for the neighbouring country's largest ethnic group | | | | | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient | | 10 | **conceive** | | | a United Macedonia | | | | | nom concept «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 306](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/North_Macedonia/306/) - next →: [sentence 308](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/North_Macedonia/308/) - ↑ back to [North Macedonia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/North_Macedonia/)