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title: In the 1990s, Slovakia had central Europe's worst-performing economy… — Slovakia · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 1990s, Slovakia had central Europe's worst-performing economy, marked by high unemployment rates and inflation with least democratic government. Who acts: Slovakia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Slovakia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Slovakia, sentence 239

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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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In the 1990s, Slovakia had central Europe's worst-performing economy, marked by high unemployment rates and inflation with least democratic government.

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**Who acts:** Slovakia · **What happens:** have, perform, mark · **To what, where:** worst performing economy, 1990s

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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 (Slovakia), 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:239
# text = In the 1990s, Slovakia had central Europe's worst-performing economy, marked by high unemployment rates and inflation with least democratic government.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Slovakia	Slovakia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	performing	perform	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	unemployment	unemployment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	rates	rate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	inflation	inflation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
24	democratic	democratic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Slovakia | central Europe's worst performing economy |  | the 1990s |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent economy=Patient |
| 2 | **perform** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mark** | participle |  | central Europe's worst performing economy *not said here* |  |  |  | by high unemployment rates and inflation with least democratic government | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent by rate=Destination |

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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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