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title: Also, the city boasts big news agencies in the country, both public,… — Skopje · tree and pragmatics
description: Also, the city boasts big news agencies in the country, both public, such as the Media Information Agency, and private, such as the Makfax. Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Skopje» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Skopje, sentence 508

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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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Also, the city boasts big news agencies in the country, both public, such as the Media Information Agency, and private, such as the Makfax.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** boast · **To what, where:** big news agencies, country

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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 (city), 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:508
# text = Also, the city boasts big news agencies in the country, both public, such as the Media Information Agency, and private, such as the Makfax.
1	Also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	boasts	boast	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	agencies	agency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
14	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Media	Media	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Information	Information	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Agency	Agency	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	29	case	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Makfax	Makfax	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boast** *speech: other* | present | the city | big news agencies |  | the country |  | such the Information Agency | tree rules |

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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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