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title: May Opera Evenings is a festival that has occurred annually in Skopj… — Skopje · tree and pragmatics
description: May Opera Evenings is a festival that has occurred annually in Skopje since 1972 and is dedicated to promoting opera amongst the general public. Who acts: May, festival. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Skopje» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Skopje, sentence 648

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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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May Opera Evenings is a festival that has occurred annually in Skopje since 1972 and is dedicated to promoting opera amongst the general public.

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**Who acts:** May, festival · **What happens:** be, occur, promote · **To what, where:** festival, Skopje, opera

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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 (May, festival), 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:648
# text = May Opera Evenings is a festival that has occurred annually in Skopje since 1972 and is dedicated to promoting opera amongst the general public.
1	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Opera	Opera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Evenings	Evenings	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	occurred	occur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Skopje	Skopje	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	since	since	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1972	1972	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	dedicated	dedicated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
18	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	promoting	promote	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	opera	opera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | May | a festival |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **occur** | present · perfect | a festival |  |  | Skopje | since 1972 | annually *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in skopje=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | a festival *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dedicated *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **promote** | gerund | a festival *not said here* | opera |  |  |  | amongst the general public | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opera=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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