Bosnia and Herzegovina, sentence 276
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.
Some cantons are ethnically mixed and have special laws to ensure the equality of all constituent people.
What happens: mix, have, ensure · To what, where: cantons, special laws, equality
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: 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 cantons | det |
| 2 | cantons | canton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mixed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mixed | aux:pass |
| 4 | ethnically | ethnically | ADV | _ | 5 mixed | advmod |
| 5 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 have | cc |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mixed | conj |
| 8 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 laws | amod |
| 9 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 ensure | mark |
| 11 | ensure | ensure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 equality | det |
| 13 | equality | equality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ensure | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 people | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 people | det |
| 16 | constituent | constituent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 people | amod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 equality | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix | present · passive | some cantons | ethnically property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | special laws | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Patient | |||||
| 3 | ensure | to-infinitive | the equality of all constituent people | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition equality=Theme |
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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