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title: It is much closer to destinations east of the Suez than the ports of… — Slovenia · tree and pragmatics
description: It is much closer to destinations east of the Suez than the ports of Northern Europe. Who acts: line. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Slovenia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Slovenia, sentence 418

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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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It is much closer to destinations east of the Suez than the ports of Northern Europe.

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**Who acts:** line · **What happens:** be

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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 (line), 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:418
# text = It is much closer to destinations east of the Suez than the ports of Northern Europe.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	destinations	destination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	east	east	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Suez	Suez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ports	port	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Northern	Northern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | line |  |  |  |  | to destinations; of the Suez; than the ports of Northern Europe; close, east *property* | tree rules |

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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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