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title: Sredets joined the uprising of Peter Delyan in 1040–1041 in a failed… — Sofia · tree and pragmatics
description: Sredets joined the uprising of Peter Delyan in 1040–1041 in a failed attempt to restore Bulgarian independence and was the last stronghold of the rebels, led by the local commander Botko. Who acts: Sredets. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sofia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sofia, sentence 124

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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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Sredets joined the uprising of Peter Delyan in 1040–1041 in a failed attempt to restore Bulgarian independence and was the last stronghold of the rebels, led by the local commander Botko.

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**Who acts:** Sredets · **What happens:** join, fail, restore, be, lead · **To what, where:** uprising, 1040, Bulgarian independence, last stronghold, rebels

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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 (Sredets), 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:124
# text = Sredets joined the uprising of Peter Delyan in 1040–1041 in a failed attempt to restore Bulgarian independence and was the last stronghold of the rebels, led by the local commander Botko.
1	Sredets	sredet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	uprising	uprising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Delyan	Delyan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1040	1040	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	1041	1041	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	failed	fail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	Bulgarian	bulgarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	rebels	rebel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	commander	commander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	Botko	Botko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past | Sredets | the uprising of Peter |  | 1040 |  | in a failed attempt | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uprising=Patient |
| 2 | **fail** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **restore** | to-infinitive | Sredets *not said here* | Bulgarian independence |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent independence=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Sredets *not said here* | the last stronghold |  |  |  | of the rebels | tree rules |
| 5 | **lead** | participle |  | the rebels *not said here* |  |  |  | by the local commander | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by commander=Destination |

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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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