Austria, sentence 90

From Wikipedia, «Austria», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip was used by leading Austrian politicians and generals to persuade the emperor to declare war on Serbia, thereby risking and prompting the outbreak of World War I, which eventually led to the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Who acts: emperor, I, Bosnian Serb · What happens: use, lead, persuade, declare, risk, prompt · To what, where: assassination, Austrian politicians, emperor, war, Serbia, outbreak

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Austria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, I, Bosnian Serb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 assassination	det
2	assassination	assassination	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 used	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Ferdinand	case
4	Archduke	Archduke	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ferdinand	compound
5	Franz	Franz	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ferdinand	flat
6	Ferdinand	Ferdinand	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 assassination	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Sarajevo	case
8	Sarajevo	Sarajevo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ferdinand	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1914	case
10	1914	1914	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 assassination	nmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 Serb	case
12	Bosnian	bosnian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Serb	amod
13	Serb	Serb	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 assassination	nmod
14	Gavrilo	Gavrilo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Serb	flat
15	Princip	Princip	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Gavrilo	flat
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 used	aux:pass
17	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 leading	mark
19	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 used	advcl
20	Austrian	austrian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 politicians	amod
21	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 leading	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 generals	cc
23	generals	general	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 politicians	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 persuade	mark
25	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 leading	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 emperor	det
27	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 persuade	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 declare	mark
29	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 persuade	xcomp
30	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 declare	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 Serbia	case
32	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 declare	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 risking	punct
34	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	35 risking	advmod
35	risking	risk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 used	advcl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 prompting	cc
37	prompting	prompt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 risking	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 outbreak	det
39	outbreak	outbreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 prompting	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 War	case
41	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 War	compound
42	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 outbreak	nmod
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 led	nsubj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 led	punct
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 led	nsubj
46	eventually	eventually	ADV	_	47 led	advmod
47	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 risking	conj
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 dissolution	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 dissolution	det
50	dissolution	dissolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 led	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	56 Empire	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Empire	det
53	Austro	Austro	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 Hungarian	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 Austro	punct
55	Hungarian	Hungarian	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Empire	compound
56	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 dissolution	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 by Bosnian Serb			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	lead	gerund		Austrian politicians and generals			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent politician=Theme
3	persuade	to-infinitive		the emperor			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent emperor=Patient clause=Result
4	declare speech: other	to-infinitive	the emperor not said here	war	Serbia		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute
5	risk	gerund				thereby property	vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	prompt	gerund		the outbreak of World War			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition outbreak=Patient
7	lead	past	I			to the dissolution of the Hungarian Empire; which nsubj; eventually property	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to dissolution=Patient
8	assassinate		Bosnian Serb	Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo			nom assassination «communication transitive»: of=patient by=agent
9	dissolve			the Hungarian Empire			nom dissolution «process transitive»: of=patient

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Austria», 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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Austria, sentence 90