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title: These symbolize the historical and cultural character of Pristina as… — Pristina · tree and pragmatics
description: These symbolize the historical and cultural character of Pristina as it was developed throughout centuries in the spirit of conquering empires (Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian). Who acts: you. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pristina» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pristina, sentence 180

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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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These symbolize the historical and cultural character of Pristina as it was developed throughout centuries in the spirit of conquering empires (Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian).

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** symbolize, develop, conquer · **To what, where:** historical character, character, spirit

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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: who acts (you), 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:180
# text = These symbolize the historical and cultural character of Pristina as it was developed throughout centuries in the spirit of conquering empires (Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian).
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	symbolize	symbolize	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Pristina	Pristina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
14	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	conquering	conquer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	empires	empire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Byzantine	byzantine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Austro	Austro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Hungarian	Hungarian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **symbolize** | imperative | you *not said here* | the historical character of Pristina |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot character=Theme |
| 2 | **develop** | past · passive |  | character |  | the spirit of conquering empires | century |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **conquer** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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, «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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