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title: The Celtic tribe Serdi gave their name to the city. — Sofia · tree and pragmatics
description: The Celtic tribe Serdi gave their name to the city. Who acts: Celtic tribe, towns. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sofia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sofia, sentence 91

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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 Celtic tribe Serdi gave their name to the city.

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**Who acts:** Celtic tribe, towns · **What happens:** give, name · **To what, where:** name, city

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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 (Celtic tribe, towns), 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:91
# text = The Celtic tribe Serdi gave their name to the city.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Serdi	Serdi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the Celtic tribe | towns's name | the city |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to city=Recipient |
| 2 | **name** |  | towns *= town* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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