Croatia, sentence 107
From Wikipedia, «Croatia», 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 Yugoslav government retained control of defence, internal security, foreign affairs, trade, and transport while other matters were left to the Croatian Sabor and a crown-appointed Ban.
Who acts: Yugoslav government · What happens: retain, leave, appoint · To what, where: control, other matters, Croatian Sabor
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Croatia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yugoslav government), 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 | 3 government | det |
| 2 | Yugoslav | Yugoslav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 government | compound |
| 3 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 retained | nsubj |
| 4 | retained | retain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 retained | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 defence | case |
| 7 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 control | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 security | punct |
| 9 | internal | internal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 security | amod |
| 10 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 control | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 affairs | punct |
| 12 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 affairs | amod |
| 13 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 control | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trade | punct |
| 15 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 control | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 transport | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 transport | cc |
| 18 | transport | transport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 retained | obl |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 left | mark |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 matters | amod |
| 21 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 left | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 left | aux:pass |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 retained | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Sabor | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Sabor | det |
| 26 | Croatian | croatian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Sabor | amod |
| 27 | Sabor | Sabor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 left | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Ban | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 Ban | det |
| 30 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 appointed | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 crown | punct |
| 32 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 Ban | amod |
| 33 | Ban | Ban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Sabor | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 retained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retain | past | the Yugoslav government | control of defence trade and internal security and foreign affairs | transport obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | other matters | the Croatian Sabor and a appointed Ban | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to sabor=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | appoint | participle | crown compound | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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