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title: Archaeological research suggests that the settlement always belonged… — Skopje · tree and pragmatics
description: Archaeological research suggests that the settlement always belonged to the same culture, which progressively evolved due to contacts with Balkan and Danube cultures, and later with the Aegean. Who acts: Archaeological research, settlement, same culture. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Skopje» with its d
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# Skopje, sentence 155

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From Wikipedia, [«Skopje»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skopje), 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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Archaeological research suggests that the settlement always belonged to the same culture, which progressively evolved due to contacts with Balkan and Danube cultures, and later with the Aegean.

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**Who acts:** Archaeological research, settlement, same culture · **What happens:** suggest, belong, evolve · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Skopje». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Archaeological research, settlement, same culture), 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:Skopje:155
# text = Archaeological research suggests that the settlement always belonged to the same culture, which progressively evolved due to contacts with Balkan and Danube cultures, and later with the Aegean.
1	Archaeological	archaeological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	research	research	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	suggests	suggest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	progressively	progressively	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	evolved	evolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	contacts	contact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	Balkan	Balkan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Danube	Danube	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	cultures	culture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Aegean	Aegean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | Archaeological research |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **belong** | past | the settlement |  |  |  |  | to the same culture; always *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **evolve** | past | the same culture |  |  |  |  | due contacts with Balkan cultures; progressively *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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, «Skopje», 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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