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title: Bratislava's geographical position in Central Europe has long made B… — Slovakia · tree and pragmatics
description: Bratislava's geographical position in Central Europe has long made Bratislava a crossroads for international trade traffic. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Slovakia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Slovakia, sentence 473

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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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Bratislava's geographical position in Central Europe has long made Bratislava a crossroads for international trade traffic.

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**What happens:** make · **To what, where:** geographical position

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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:473
# text = Bratislava's geographical position in Central Europe has long made Bratislava a crossroads for international trade traffic.
1	Bratislava	Bratislava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	geographical	geographical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	Bratislava	Bratislava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	crossroads	crossroad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · perfect · passive |  | Bratislava's geographical position in Central Europe |  |  |  | for international trade traffic; Bratislava  a crossroads *xcomp*; long *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for traffic=Asset |

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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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