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title: Shkup, the name of the city in Albanian, developed directly from Rom… — Skopje · tree and pragmatics
description: Shkup, the name of the city in Albanian, developed directly from Roman-era Scupi in agreement with the Albanian phonological development, the basis of evidence of an earlier Albanian settlement in the area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Skopje» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Skopje, sentence 22

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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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Shkup, the name of the city in Albanian, developed directly from Roman-era Scupi in agreement with the Albanian phonological development, the basis of evidence of an earlier Albanian settlement in the area.

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**What happens:** develop, name, evidence · **To what, where:** city, Roman era, Shkup, Albanian settlement

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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: 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:22
# text = Shkup, the name of the city in Albanian, developed directly from Roman-era Scupi in agreement with the Albanian phonological development, the basis of evidence of an earlier Albanian settlement in the area.
1	Shkup	Shkup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Albanian	Albanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
12	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	Scupi	Scupi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Albanian	Albanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	phonological	phonological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	basis	basis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
33	Albanian	Albanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **develop** | participle |  | the city in Albanian *not said here* |  | Roman era |  | in agreement with the Albanian phonological development; directly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in agreement=Location |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | the city in Albanian |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **evidence** |  |  | a Albanian settlement in the area |  |  |  |  | nom evidence «cognition 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, «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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