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title: Continuously inhabited since the Paleolithic age, the territory of m… — Serbia · tree and pragmatics
description: Continuously inhabited since the Paleolithic age, the territory of modern-day Serbia, then part of the Roman Empire, faced Slavic migrations in the 6th century. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Serbia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Serbia, sentence 6

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From Wikipedia, [«Serbia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia), 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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Continuously inhabited since the Paleolithic age, the territory of modern-day Serbia, then part of the Roman Empire, faced Slavic migrations in the 6th century.

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**What happens:** inhabit, face · **To what, where:** Slavic migrations

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Serbia». 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:Serbia:6
# text = Continuously inhabited since the Paleolithic age, the territory of modern-day Serbia, then part of the Roman Empire, faced Slavic migrations in the 6th century.
1	Continuously	continuously	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	since	since	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Paleolithic	paleolithic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Roman	Roman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	faced	face	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	Slavic	slavic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	migrations	migration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	6th	6th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	29	amod	_	_
29	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inhabit** | participle |  |  |  |  | since the Paleolithic age | continuously *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **face** | past |  | Slavic migrations |  |  | century |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme migration=Destination |

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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, «Serbia», 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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