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title: However, after the Prespa agreement, North Macedonia became a member… — North Macedonia · tree and pragmatics
description: However, after the Prespa agreement, North Macedonia became a member state of NATO on 27 March 2020. Who acts: North. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Macedonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Macedonia, sentence 323

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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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However, after the Prespa agreement, North Macedonia became a member state of NATO on 27 March 2020.

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**Who acts:** North · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** member state, 27

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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 (North), 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:323
# text = However, after the Prespa agreement, North Macedonia became a member state of NATO on 27 March 2020.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Prespa	Prespa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Macedonia	Macedonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	NATO	NATO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
18	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | North | a member state of NATO |  | 27 | after the Prespa agreement | however *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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