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title: Some only pass through Slovakia, while others make a natural border… — Slovakia · tree and pragmatics
description: Some only pass through Slovakia, while others make a natural border with surrounding countries (more than 620 km). Who acts: Some, others. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Slovakia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Slovakia, sentence 307

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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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Some only pass through Slovakia, while others make a natural border with surrounding countries (more than 620 km).

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**Who acts:** Some, others · **What happens:** pass, make, surround · **To what, where:** Slovakia, natural border

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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 (Some, others), 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:307
# text = Some only pass through Slovakia, while others make a natural border with surrounding countries (more than 620 km).
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Slovakia	Slovakia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	19	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	620	620	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | present | Some |  |  | Slovakia |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through slovakia=Location |
| 2 | **make** | present | others | a natural border |  |  |  | with surrounding countries  620 km | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset border=Product |
| 3 | **surround** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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, «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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