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title: Around one million Americans have their roots in Slovakia, and many… — Slovakia · tree and pragmatics
description: Around one million Americans have their roots in Slovakia, and many retain strong cultural and familial ties to the Slovak Republic. Who acts: million Americans, many. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Slovakia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Slovakia, sentence 397

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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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Around one million Americans have their roots in Slovakia, and many retain strong cultural and familial ties to the Slovak Republic.

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**Who acts:** million Americans, many · **What happens:** have, retain · **To what, where:** roots, Slovakia, strong cultural ties

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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 (million Americans, many), 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:397
# text = Around one million Americans have their roots in Slovakia, and many retain strong cultural and familial ties to the Slovak Republic.
1	Around	around	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	Americans	American	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Slovakia	Slovakia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
13	retain	retain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
15	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	familial	familial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Slovak	Slovak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | million Americans | Americans's roots |  | Slovakia |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient |
| 2 | **retain** | present | many | strong cultural ties |  |  |  | to the Slovak Republic | 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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