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title: Traditionally, white wine was more popular than red or rosé (except… — Slovakia · tree and pragmatics
description: Traditionally, white wine was more popular than red or rosé (except in some regions), and sweet wine more popular than dry; however, in recent years tastes seem to be changing. Who acts: white wine, tastes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Slovakia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Slovakia, sentence 646

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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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Traditionally, white wine was more popular than red or rosé (except in some regions), and sweet wine more popular than dry; however, in recent years tastes seem to be changing.

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**Who acts:** white wine, tastes · **What happens:** be, seem, change

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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 (white wine, tastes), 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:646
# text = Traditionally, white wine was more popular than red or rosé (except in some regions), and sweet wine more popular than dry; however, in recent years tastes seem to be changing.
1	Traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	rosé	rosé	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	except	except	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	however	however	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
32	tastes	taste	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux	_	_
36	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | white wine |  |  |  |  | than red; popular, traditionally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | white wine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | some regions *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | white wine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than dry | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | present | tastes in recent years |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **change** | to-infinitive · progressive | tastes in recent years *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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