Bosnia and Herzegovina, sentence 518

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.

Self-taught people, mostly in two or three members of the different choices of old instruments, mostly in the violin, sacking, saz, drums, flutes (zurle) or wooden flute, as others have already called, the original performers of Bosnian music that can not be written notes, transmitted by ear from generation to generation, family is usually hereditary.

Who acts: family · What happens: teach, sack, call, not write, transmit, be · To what, where: taught people, original performers, generation · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (family), 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	Self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taught	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Self	punct
3	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 called	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 members	punct
6	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	11 members	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 members	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 members	nummod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 three	cc
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 two	conj
11	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 people	acl:relcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 choices	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 choices	det
14	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 choices	amod
15	choices	choice	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 members	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 instruments	case
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 instruments	amod
18	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 choices	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 violin	punct
20	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	23 violin	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 violin	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 violin	det
23	violin	violin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 instruments	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sacking	punct
25	sacking	sack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 violin	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saz	punct
27	saz	saz	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 violin	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 drums	punct
29	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 instruments	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 flutes	punct
31	flutes	flute	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 instruments	conj
32	(	(	PUNCT	_	33 zurle	punct
33	zurle	zurle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flutes	appos
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	33 zurle	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 flute	cc
36	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 flute	amod
37	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 instruments	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 called	punct
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 called	mark
40	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 called	nsubj:pass
41	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 called	aux
42	already	already	ADV	_	43 called	advmod
43	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 performers	punct
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 performers	det
46	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 performers	amod
47	performers	performer	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 called	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 music	case
49	Bosnian	bosnian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 music	amod
50	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 performers	nmod
51	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 written	nsubj:pass
52	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 written	aux
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 written	advmod
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 written	aux:pass
55	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 performers	acl:relcl
56	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 written	obj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 transmitted	punct
58	transmitted	transmit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 performers	acl
59	by	by	ADP	_	60 ear	case
60	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 transmitted	obl
61	from	from	ADP	_	62 generation	case
62	generation	generation	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 transmitted	obl
63	to	to	ADP	_	64 generation	case
64	generation	generation	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 generation	nmod
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 hereditary	punct
66	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 hereditary	nsubj
67	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	69 hereditary	cop
68	usually	usually	ADV	_	69 hereditary	advmod
69	hereditary	hereditary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 called	conj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	participle				Self compound	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sack	gerund					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	call	present · perfect · passive		taught people in two members of the different choices of old instruments in the violin and saz and drums and flutes or wooden flute		the original performers of Bosnian music obl; others nsubj:pass	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	not write	can · passive		the original performers of Bosnian music		notes obj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient note=Topic
5	transmit	participle		the original performers of Bosnian music not said here	from generation to generation	by ear	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from generation=Initial_Location
6	is	present	family			hereditary, usually property	tree rules

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, «Bosnia and Herzegovina», 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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Bosnia and Herzegovina, sentence 518