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title: As the western empire weakened in the 5th and 6th centuries, the are… — Slovenia · tree and pragmatics
description: As the western empire weakened in the 5th and 6th centuries, the area was subject to invasions by the Huns and Germanic tribes during their incursions into Italy. Who acts: area, Huns, tribes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Slovenia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Slovenia, sentence 33

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From Wikipedia, [«Slovenia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia), 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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As the western empire weakened in the 5th and 6th centuries, the area was subject to invasions by the Huns and Germanic tribes during their incursions into Italy.

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**Who acts:** area, Huns, tribes · **What happens:** weaken, be, invade, incur · **To what, where:** western empire, Italy

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Slovenia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (area, Huns, tribes), 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:Slovenia:33
# text = As the western empire weakened in the 5th and 6th centuries, the area was subject to invasions by the Huns and Germanic tribes during their incursions into Italy.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
5	weakened	weaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	5th	5th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	6th	6th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	8	conj	_	_
11	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	subject	subject	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	invasions	invasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Huns	Hun	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	Germanic	germanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
25	during	during	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	incursions	incursion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weaken** | participle |  | the western empire *not said here* |  |  | century |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the area |  |  |  | during tribes's incursions into Italy | as the western empire; to invasions by the Huns and Germanic tribes; subject *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **invade** |  | the Huns |  |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «act transitive»: by=agent |
| 4 | **incur** |  | tribes *= tribe* |  |  | Italy |  |  | nom incursion «act transitive»: poss=agent into=place |

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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, «Slovenia», 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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