Kosovo, sentence 152
From Wikipedia, «Kosovo», 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.
A decree from Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito, followed by a new law in August 1945 disallowed the return of colonists who had taken land from Albanian peasants.
Who acts: decree, colonists · What happens: follow, disallow, take, return · To what, where: decree, return, land
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kosovo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (decree, colonists), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 decree | det |
| 2 | decree | decree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disallowed | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 leader | case |
| 4 | Yugoslav | Yugoslav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 leader | compound |
| 5 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 decree | nmod |
| 6 | Josip | Josip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 leader | appos |
| 7 | Broz | Broz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Josip | flat |
| 8 | Tito | Tito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Josip | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 followed | punct |
| 10 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 decree | acl:relcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 law | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 law | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 law | amod |
| 14 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 followed | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 August | case |
| 16 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 law | nmod |
| 17 | 1945 | 1945 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 August | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | disallowed | disallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 return | det |
| 20 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disallowed | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 colonists | case |
| 22 | colonists | colonist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 return | nmod |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 taken | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 taken | aux |
| 25 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 colonists | acl:relcl |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 taken | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 peasants | case |
| 28 | Albanian | Albanian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 peasants | amod |
| 29 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 taken | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 disallowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | participle | a decree from Yugoslav leader not said here | by a new law in August 1945 | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by law=Location | ||||
| 2 | disallow | past | a decree from Yugoslav leader | the return of colonists | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past · perfect | colonists | land | from Albanian peasants | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent land=Theme from peasant=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | return | colonists | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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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