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title: It was rebuilt by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. During the reign of… — Sofia · tree and pragmatics
description: It was rebuilt by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. During the reign of Justinian it flourished, being surrounded with great fortress walls whose remnants can still be seen today. Who acts: Byzantine Emperor, Council. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sofia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sofia, sentence 112

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From Wikipedia, [«Sofia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia), 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 was rebuilt by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. During the reign of Justinian it flourished, being surrounded with great fortress walls whose remnants can still be seen today.

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**Who acts:** Byzantine Emperor, Council · **What happens:** rebuild, flourish, surround, see · **To what, where:** Council

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sofia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Byzantine Emperor, Council), 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:Sofia:112
# text = It was rebuilt by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. During the reign of Justinian it flourished, being surrounded with great fortress walls whose remnants can still be seen today.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	rebuilt	rebuild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Byzantine	byzantine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
7	Justinian	Justinian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	During	during	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Justinian	Justinian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	flourished	flourish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	fortress	fortress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	remnants	remnant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
29	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rebuild** | past · passive | Byzantine Emperor | Council |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
| 2 | **flourish** | past | Council |  |  |  | during the reign of Justinian |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **surround** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with great fortress walls and great fortress walls and great fortress walls's remnants's remnants | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with wall=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | can · passive |  |  |  |  | still; today |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |

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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, «Sofia», 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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