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title: The Bulgarian patron saint John of Rila was buried in Sredets by ord… — Sofia · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bulgarian patron saint John of Rila was buried in Sredets by orders of Emperor Peter I in the mid 10th century. Who acts: orders. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sofia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sofia, sentence 117

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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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The Bulgarian patron saint John of Rila was buried in Sredets by orders of Emperor Peter I in the mid 10th century.

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**Who acts:** orders · **What happens:** bury, order · **To what, where:** Bulgarian patron saint, Sredets, Emperor Peter

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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 (orders), 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:117
# text = The Bulgarian patron saint John of Rila was buried in Sredets by orders of Emperor Peter I in the mid 10th century.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Bulgarian	bulgarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	patron	patron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Rila	Rila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Sredets	sredet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	mid	mid	X	AFX	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	10th	10th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | past · passive | orders of Emperor Peter | the Bulgarian patron saint |  | Sredets | century | I *obl* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in sredet=Destination |
| 2 | **order** |  |  | Emperor Peter |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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