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title: His son Saint Stephen I became the first King of Hungary after defea… — Slovakia · tree and pragmatics
description: His son Saint Stephen I became the first King of Hungary after defeating his pagan uncle Koppány. Who acts: son. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Slovakia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Slovakia, sentence 124

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From Wikipedia, [«Slovakia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia), 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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His son Saint Stephen I became the first King of Hungary after defeating his pagan uncle Koppány.

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**Who acts:** son · **What happens:** become, defeat · **To what, where:** pagan uncle

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Slovakia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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:Slovakia:124
# text = His son Saint Stephen I became the first King of Hungary after defeating his pagan uncle Koppány.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Stephen	Stephen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Hungary	Hungary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	defeating	defeat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	pagan	pagan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	Koppány	Koppány	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Europe's son |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj*; the first King of Hungary *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **defeat** | gerund | Europe's son *not said here* | Europe's pagan uncle |  |  |  |  | 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, «Slovakia», 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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