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title: Following their defeat in the Second Persian invasion of Greece in 4… — North Macedonia · tree and pragmatics
description: Following their defeat in the Second Persian invasion of Greece in 479 BC, the Persians eventually withdrew from their European territories. Who acts: Persians, Paeonia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Macedonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Macedonia, sentence 42

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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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Following their defeat in the Second Persian invasion of Greece in 479 BC, the Persians eventually withdrew from their European territories.

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**Who acts:** Persians, Paeonia · **What happens:** follow, withdraw, defeat, invade · **To what, where:** European territories, Second Persian invasion, Greece

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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 (Persians, Paeonia), 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:42
# text = Following their defeat in the Second Persian invasion of Greece in 479 BC, the Persians eventually withdrew from their European territories.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
7	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	479	479	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
13	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Persians	Persian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **withdraw** | past | the Persians |  |  | Persians's European territories |  | follow Paeonia's defeat in the Second Persian invasion of Greece in 479  BC; eventually *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from territory=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **defeat** |  | Paeonia |  |  | the Second Persian invasion of Greece |  |  | nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
| 4 | **invade** |  |  | Greece |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=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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