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title: In the area of Pristina, a hilltop settlement appears since the 8th… — Pristina · tree and pragmatics
description: In the area of Pristina, a hilltop settlement appears since the 8th century BCE at an elevation of 685 metres near the village Teneshdoll, around 16 kilometres north of the Pristina city center. Who acts: hilltop settlement. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pristina» with its dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Pristina, sentence 36

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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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In the area of Pristina, a hilltop settlement appears since the 8th century BCE at an elevation of 685 metres near the village Teneshdoll, around 16 kilometres north of the Pristina city center.

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**Who acts:** hilltop settlement · **What happens:** appear, elevate · **To what, where:** 16 kilometres, area, 685 metres

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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 (hilltop settlement), 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:36
# text = In the area of Pristina, a hilltop settlement appears since the 8th century BCE at an elevation of 685 metres near the village Teneshdoll, around 16 kilometres north of the Pristina city center.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Pristina	Pristina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	hilltop	hilltop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	since	since	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	8th	8th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	BCE	BCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	elevation	elevation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	685	685	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	near	near	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	Teneshdoll	Teneshdoll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	around	around	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	north	north	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	Pristina	Pristina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | a hilltop settlement | 16 kilometres |  | the area of Pristina | century | at a elevation of 685 metres near the village | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in area=Location |
| 2 | **elevate** |  |  | 685 metres near the village |  |  |  |  | nom elevation «event 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, «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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