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title: The region became the seat of the dukes, and later kings of Bohemia. — Prague · tree and pragmatics
description: The region became the seat of the dukes, and later kings of Bohemia. Who acts: region. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Prague» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Prague, sentence 40

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From Wikipedia, [«Prague»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague), 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 region became the seat of the dukes, and later kings of Bohemia.

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**Who acts:** region · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** seat

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Prague». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (region), 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:Prague:40
# text = The region became the seat of the dukes, and later kings of Bohemia.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dukes	duke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Bohemia	bohemia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the region | the seat of the dukes |  |  |  | kings of Bohemia *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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, «Prague», 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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