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title: The period spanning the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age (1300 BC–5… — Poland · tree and pragmatics
description: The period spanning the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age (1300 BC–500 BC) was marked by an increase in population density, establishment of palisaded settlements (gords) and the expansion of Lusatian culture. Who acts: period, increase. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Poland» with its dependency tree an
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# Poland, sentence 34

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From Wikipedia, [«Poland»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland), 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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The period spanning the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age (1300 BC–500 BC) was marked by an increase in population density, establishment of palisaded settlements (gords) and the expansion of Lusatian culture.

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**Who acts:** period, increase · **What happens:** span, mark, palisade, establish, expand · **To what, where:** Bronze Age, period, palisaded settlements, Lusatian culture

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Poland». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (period, increase), 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:Poland:34
# text = The period spanning the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age (1300 BC–500 BC) was marked by an increase in population density, establishment of palisaded settlements (gords) and the expansion of Lusatian culture.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	spanning	span	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Bronze	Bronze	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Early	Early	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	1300	1300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	_
14	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	appos	_	_
17	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	density	density	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	palisaded	palisade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	settlements	settlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	gords	gord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	expansion	expansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	Lusatian	lusatian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **span** | gerund | the period *not said here* | the Bronze Age and the Iron Age |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme age=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **mark** | past · passive | a increase in population density and establishment of palisaded settlements and the expansion of Lusatian culture | the period |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |
| 3 | **palisade** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **establish** |  |  | palisaded settlements |  |  |  |  | nom establishment «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **expand** |  |  | Lusatian culture |  |  |  |  | nom expansion «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, «Poland», 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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