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title: In 1209, Strez switched allegiances and recognised Boril of Bulgaria… — Skopje · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1209, Strez switched allegiances and recognised Boril of Bulgaria with whom he led a successful joint campaign against Serbia's first internationally recognised King Stefan Nemanjić. Who acts: Strez, successful joint campaign. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Skopje» with its dependency tree and pragma
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# Skopje, sentence 198

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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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In 1209, Strez switched allegiances and recognised Boril of Bulgaria with whom he led a successful joint campaign against Serbia's first internationally recognised King Stefan Nemanjić.

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**Who acts:** Strez, successful joint campaign · **What happens:** switch, recognise, lead · **To what, where:** allegiances, 1209, Boril, King Stefan

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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 (Strez, successful joint campaign), 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:198
# text = In 1209, Strez switched allegiances and recognised Boril of Bulgaria with whom he led a successful joint campaign against Serbia's first internationally recognised King Stefan Nemanjić.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1209	1209	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Strez	Strez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	switched	switch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	allegiances	allegiance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	Boril	Boril	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	joint	joint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	nmod	_	_
24	internationally	internationally	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
26	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Stefan	Stefan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	Nemanjić	Nemanjić	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **switch** | past | Strez | allegiances |  | 1209 |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent allegiance=Patient |
| 2 | **recognise** | past | Strez *not said here* | Boril of Bulgaria |  |  |  | whom *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boril=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lead** | past | Strez |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result |
| 4 | **recognise** | past | a successful joint campaign against Serbia's first | King Stefan |  |  |  | internationally *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stefan=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, «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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