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title: The city was known for its trade fairs and items, such as goatskin a… — Pristina · tree and pragmatics
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# Pristina, sentence 17

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From Wikipedia, [«Pristina»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristina), 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 city was known for its trade fairs and items, such as goatskin and goat hair as well as gunpowder.

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**What happens:** know · **To what, where:** city

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Pristina». 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:Pristina:17
# text = The city was known for its trade fairs and items, such as goatskin and goat hair as well as gunpowder.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fairs	fair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	items	item	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	goatskin	goatskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	21	cc	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	fixed	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
21	gunpowder	gunpowder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | the city |  |  |  | for city's trade fairs and items and goatskin and goat hair as gunpowder | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |

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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, «Pristina», 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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