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title: An incipit titled Dagome iudex first defined Poland's geographical b… — Poland · tree and pragmatics
description: An incipit titled Dagome iudex first defined Poland's geographical boundaries with its capital in Gniezno and affirmed that its monarchy was under the protection of the Apostolic See. Who acts: incipit, monarchy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Poland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Poland, sentence 43

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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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An incipit titled Dagome iudex first defined Poland's geographical boundaries with its capital in Gniezno and affirmed that its monarchy was under the protection of the Apostolic See.

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**Who acts:** incipit, monarchy · **What happens:** title, define, affirm, be · **To what, where:** Dagome, geographical boundaries, protection

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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 (incipit, monarchy), 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:43
# text = An incipit titled Dagome iudex first defined Poland's geographical boundaries with its capital in Gniezno and affirmed that its monarchy was under the protection of the Apostolic See.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	incipit	incipit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	titled	title	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	Dagome	Dagome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	iudex	iudex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
7	defined	define	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	geographical	geographical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	boundaries	boundary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Gniezno	Gniezno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	affirmed	affirm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	monarchy	monarchy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	under	under	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Apostolic	Apostolic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	See	See	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **title** | participle | a incipit and iudex *not said here* | Dagome |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **define** | past | a incipit and iudex | Poland's geographical boundaries |  |  |  | with iudex's capital in Gniezno; first *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boundary=Theme |
| 3 | **affirm** | past | a incipit and iudex *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | iudex's monarchy |  |  | the protection |  | of the Apostolic See | tree rules |

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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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