Montenegro, sentence 154
From Wikipedia, «Montenegro», 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.
as of 2019 12 the newly adopted Law on Religion, which de jure transferred the ownership of church buildings and estates built before 1918 from the Serbian Orthodox Church to the Montenegrin state, sparked large protests and road blockages.
Who acts: adopted Law, Montenegrin state · What happens: adopt, transfer, build, spark · To what, where: ownership, church buildings, Serbian Orthodox Church, large protests
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Montenegro». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adopted Law, Montenegrin state), 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 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 12 | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 as | fixed |
| 3 | 2019 | 2019 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 12 | compound |
| 4 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 transferred | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Law | det |
| 6 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 7 adopted | advmod |
| 7 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Law | amod |
| 8 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 transferred | nsubj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Religion | case |
| 10 | Religion | Religion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Law | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 de | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 de | nsubj |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 Law | flat:foreign |
| 14 | jure | jure | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 de | flat |
| 15 | transferred | transfer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ownership | det |
| 17 | ownership | ownership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 transferred | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 buildings | case |
| 19 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buildings | compound |
| 20 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ownership | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 estates | cc |
| 22 | estates | estate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 buildings | conj |
| 23 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 buildings | acl |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 1918 | case |
| 25 | 1918 | 1918 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 built | obl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 Church | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Church | det |
| 28 | Serbian | serbian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Church | amod |
| 29 | Orthodox | Orthodox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Church | compound |
| 30 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 built | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 state | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 state | det |
| 33 | Montenegrin | Montenegrin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 state | compound |
| 34 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 built | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sparked | punct |
| 36 | sparked | spark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 state | acl |
| 37 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 protests | amod |
| 38 | protests | protest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 sparked | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 blockages | cc |
| 40 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 blockages | compound |
| 41 | blockages | blockage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 protests | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 transferred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | participle | newly property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | transfer | past | the adopted Law on Religion | the ownership of church buildings and estates | as 2019 12 | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent ownership=Theme | |||
| 3 | build | participle | church buildings and estates not said here | the Serbian Orthodox Church | before 1918 | to the Montenegrin state | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from church=Material | ||
| 4 | spark | participle | the Montenegrin state not said here | large protests and road blockages | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition protest=Patient |
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, «Montenegro», 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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