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title: A Paeonian cavalry contingent, led by Ariston, possibly brother of K… — North Macedonia · tree and pragmatics
description: A Paeonian cavalry contingent, led by Ariston, possibly brother of King Patraus and father of the later king Audoleon, was attached to Alexander the Great's army. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Macedonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Macedonia, sentence 45

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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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A Paeonian cavalry contingent, led by Ariston, possibly brother of King Patraus and father of the later king Audoleon, was attached to Alexander the Great's army.

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**What happens:** lead, attach · **To what, where:** Paeonian cavalry contingent, Alexander

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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: 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:45
# text = A Paeonian cavalry contingent, led by Ariston, possibly brother of King Patraus and father of the later king Audoleon, was attached to Alexander the Great's army.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Paeonian	paeonian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	contingent	contingent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ariston	Ariston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Patraus	Patraus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:desc	_	_
21	Audoleon	Audoleon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | participle |  | a Paeonian cavalry contingent and brother of King Patraus and father of the Audoleon  king *not said here* |  |  |  | Ariston *obl:agent* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **attach** | past · passive |  | a Paeonian cavalry contingent and brother of King Patraus and father of the Audoleon  king | Alexander |  |  | the Great's army *nsubj:pass* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to alexander=Co-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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