Bosnia and Herzegovina, sentence 55
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.
Conflict between the Illyrians and Romans started in 229 BCE, but Rome did not complete its annexation of the region until AD 9.
Who acts: Conflict, Rome · What happens: start, not complete · To what, where: 229, annexation
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 (Conflict, Rome), 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 | Conflict | Conflict | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 started | nsubj |
| 2 | between | between | ADP | _ | 4 Illyrians | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Illyrians | det |
| 4 | Illyrians | Illyrian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Conflict | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Romans | cc |
| 6 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Conflict | conj |
| 7 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 229 | case |
| 9 | 229 | 229 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 started | obl |
| 10 | BCE | BCE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 229 | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 complete | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 complete | cc |
| 13 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 complete | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 complete | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 complete | advmod |
| 16 | complete | complete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 started | conj |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 annexation | nmod:poss |
| 18 | annexation | annexation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 complete | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 region | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 region | det |
| 21 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 annexation | nmod |
| 22 | until | until | ADP | _ | 23 AD | case |
| 23 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 complete | obl |
| 24 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 AD | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | Conflict between the Illyrians and Romans | 229 BCE | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not complete | past · do-support | Rome | megalithic's annexation of the region | until AD | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent annexation=Eventuality |
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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