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title: According to one of the theories, a new form of national name formed… — Slovakia · tree and pragmatics
description: According to one of the theories, a new form of national name formed for the ancestors of the Slovaks between the 13th and 14th century, possibly due to foreign influence; the Czech word Slovák (in medieval sources from 1291 onward). A sentence of Wikipedia's «Slovakia» with its dependency tree and 
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# Slovakia, sentence 34

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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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According to one of the theories, a new form of national name formed for the ancestors of the Slovaks between the 13th and 14th century, possibly due to foreign influence; the Czech word Slovák (in medieval sources from 1291 onward).

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**What happens:** accord, form · **To what, where:** national name

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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: 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:34
# text = According to one of the theories, a new form of national name formed for the ancestors of the Slovaks between the 13th and 14th century, possibly due to foreign influence; the Czech word Slovák (in medieval sources from 1291 onward).
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	theories	theory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Slovaks	slovak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	between	between	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	13th	13th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	14th	14th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	23	conj	_	_
26	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	32	case	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Czech	Czech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
37	Slovák	Slovák	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
38	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	medieval	medieval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	appos	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	1291	1291	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	nmod	_	_
44	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **form** | participle |  | national name *not said here* |  |  |  | for the ancestors of the Slovaks between the 13th century and foreign influence | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | national name |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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