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title: A Slavic state known as the Principality of Nitra arose in the eight… — Slovakia · tree and pragmatics
description: A Slavic state known as the Principality of Nitra arose in the eighth century and its ruler Pribina had the first known Christian church of the territory of present-day Slovakia consecrated by 828. Who acts: Slavic state, ruler. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Slovakia» with its dependency tree and pragm
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# Slovakia, sentence 85

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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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A Slavic state known as the Principality of Nitra arose in the eighth century and its ruler Pribina had the first known Christian church of the territory of present-day Slovakia consecrated by 828.

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**Who acts:** Slavic state, ruler · **What happens:** know, arise, have, consecrate · **To what, where:** Slavic state, first known Christian church, present day

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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 (Slavic state, ruler), 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:85
# text = A Slavic state known as the Principality of Nitra arose in the eighth century and its ruler Pribina had the first known Christian church of the territory of present-day Slovakia consecrated by 828.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Slavic	slavic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Principality	principality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Nitra	Nitra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	eighth	eighth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	Pribina	Pribina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
22	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
23	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	Slovakia	Slovakia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
33	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	828	828	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | a Slavic state *not said here* |  |  |  | as the Principality of Nitra | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as principality=Attribute |
| 2 | **arise** | past | a Slavic state |  |  |  | century |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | state's ruler | the first known Christian church of the territory of present day |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Patient |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **consecrate** | participle |  | present day *not said here* |  |  |  | by 828 | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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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