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title: These three rivers are less than 70 km long. — Skopje · tree and pragmatics
description: These three rivers are less than 70 km long. Who acts: three rivers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Skopje» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Skopje, sentence 52

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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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These three rivers are less than 70 km long.

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**Who acts:** three rivers · **What happens:** be

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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 (three rivers), 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:52
# text = These three rivers are less than 70 km long.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this three rivers |  |  |  |  | less *property* | 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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