Bosnia and Herzegovina, sentence 163
From Wikipedia, «Bosnia and Herzegovina», 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 regime systematically and brutally massacred Serbs in villages in the countryside, using a variety of tools.
Who acts: regime · What happens: massacre, use · To what, where: Serbs, villages, variety
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bosnia and Herzegovina». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (regime), 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 regime | det |
| 2 | regime | regime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 massacred | nsubj |
| 3 | systematically | systematically | ADV | _ | 6 massacred | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brutally | cc |
| 5 | brutally | brutally | ADV | _ | 6 massacred | advmod |
| 6 | massacred | massacre | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Serbs | serb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 massacred | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 villages | case |
| 9 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 massacred | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 countryside | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 countryside | det |
| 12 | countryside | countryside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 massacred | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 using | punct |
| 14 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 massacred | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 variety | det |
| 16 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 using | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tools | case |
| 18 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 variety | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 massacred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | massacre | past | the regime | Serbs | villages | in the countryside; brutally, systematically property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serb=Patient | ||
| 2 | use | gerund | the regime not said here | a variety of tools | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent variety=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.
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