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title: After its disintegration Following Samo's death around 658, the ance… — Slovenia · tree and pragmatics
description: After its disintegration Following Samo's death around 658, the ancestors of the Slovenes formed independent geopolitical entities: duchy of Carantania, and Carniola, later duchy Carniola. Who acts: disintegration, ancestors, area, Samo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Slovenia» with its dependency tree 
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# Slovenia, sentence 37

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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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After its disintegration Following Samo's death around 658, the ancestors of the Slovenes formed independent geopolitical entities: duchy of Carantania, and Carniola, later duchy Carniola.

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**Who acts:** disintegration, ancestors, area, Samo · **What happens:** follow, form, disintegrate, die · **To what, where:** death, 658, independent geopolitical entities

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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 (disintegration, ancestors, area, Samo), 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:37
# text = After its disintegration Following Samo's death around 658, the ancestors of the Slovenes formed independent geopolitical entities: duchy of Carantania, and Carniola, later duchy Carniola.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	disintegration	disintegration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	Samo	Samo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	around	around	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	658	658	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Slovenes	Slovene	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	geopolitical	geopolitical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	entities	entity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	duchy	duchy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Carantania	Carantania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Carniola	Carniola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
29	duchy	duchy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
30	Carniola	Carniola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund | area's disintegration *not said here* | Samo's death |  | 658 |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent death=Theme around 658=Trajectory |
| 2 | **form** | past | the ancestors of the Slovenes | independent geopolitical entities and duchy of Carantania |  |  | after area's disintegration | Carniola *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location entity=Theme |
| 3 | **disintegrate** |  | area |  |  |  |  |  | nom disintegration «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **die** |  | Samo |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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, «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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