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title: The Slavic name Sredets (Срѣдецъ), which is related to "middle" (сре… — Sofia · tree and pragmatics
description: The Slavic name Sredets (Срѣдецъ), which is related to "middle" (среда, "sreda") and to the city's earliest name, first appeared on paper in an 11th-century text. Who acts: Slavic name, earliest name, city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sofia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sofia, sentence 33

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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 Slavic name Sredets (Срѣдецъ), which is related to "middle" (среда, "sreda") and to the city's earliest name, first appeared on paper in an 11th-century text.

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**Who acts:** Slavic name, earliest name, city · **What happens:** be, appear, name · **To what, where:** paper, Slavic name

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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 (Slavic name, earliest name, city), 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:33
# text = The Slavic name Sredets (Срѣдецъ), which is related to "middle" (среда, "sreda") and to the city's earliest name, first appeared on paper in an 11th-century text.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Slavic	slavic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Sredets	Sredet	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Срѣдецъ	Срѣдецъ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	среда	среда	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	sreda	sreda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	32	advmod	_	_
32	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	11th	11th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Slavic name |  |  |  |  | to middle; среда *obl*; the city's earliest name *conj*; related *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | past | the city's earliest name *not said here* |  |  | paper |  | in a century text; first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on paper=Location |
| 4 | **name** |  | the city |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: 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, «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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