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title: He moved the capital to Skopje and then to Ohrid, which had been the… — North Macedonia · tree and pragmatics
description: He moved the capital to Skopje and then to Ohrid, which had been the cultural and military centre of southwestern Bulgaria since Boris I's rule. Who acts: Samuil, Skopje, I. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Macedonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Macedonia, sentence 69

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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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He moved the capital to Skopje and then to Ohrid, which had been the cultural and military centre of southwestern Bulgaria since Boris I's rule.

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**Who acts:** Samuil, Skopje, I · **What happens:** move, be, rule · **To what, where:** capital, Skopje, cultural centre

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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 (Samuil, Skopje, I), 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:69
# text = He moved the capital to Skopje and then to Ohrid, which had been the cultural and military centre of southwestern Bulgaria since Boris I's rule.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Skopje	Skopje	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Ohrid	Ohrid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	southwestern	southwestern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	since	since	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Boris	Boris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | Samuil | the capital | Skopje and Ohrid |  | since Boris |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent capital=Theme to skopje=Result |
| 2 | **is a** | past · perfect | Skopje and Ohrid | the cultural centre |  |  |  | of southwestern Bulgaria | tree rules |
| 3 | **rule** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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