North Macedonia, sentence 425
From Wikipedia, «North Macedonia», 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.
Bishop Jovan was jailed for 18 months for "defaming the Macedonian Orthodox church and harming the religious feelings of local citizens" by distributing Serbian Orthodox church calendars and pamphlets.
What happens: jail, defame, harm, distribute · To what, where: Bishop, Orthodox church, religious feelings, Serbian Orthodox church calendars
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «North Macedonia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 jailed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Jovan | Jovan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bishop | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jailed | aux:pass |
| 4 | jailed | jail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 months | case |
| 6 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 months | nummod |
| 7 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 jailed | obl |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 defaming | mark |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 defaming | punct |
| 10 | defaming | defame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 jailed | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 church | det |
| 12 | Macedonian | Macedonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Orthodox | compound |
| 13 | Orthodox | Orthodox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 church | compound |
| 14 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 defaming | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 harming | cc |
| 16 | harming | harm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 defaming | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 feelings | det |
| 18 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 feelings | amod |
| 19 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 harming | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 citizens | case |
| 21 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 citizens | amod |
| 22 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 feelings | nmod |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 citizens | punct |
| 24 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 distributing | mark |
| 25 | distributing | distribute | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 harming | advcl |
| 26 | Serbian | serbian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 calendars | amod |
| 27 | Orthodox | orthodox | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 calendars | amod |
| 28 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 calendars | compound |
| 29 | calendars | calendar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 distributing | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 pamphlets | cc |
| 31 | pamphlets | pamphlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 calendars | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jail | past · passive | Bishop | month | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | defame in a quote | gerund | the Orthodox church | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Theme | |||||
| 3 | harm in a quote | gerund | the religious feelings of local citizens | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus feeling=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | distribute | gerund | Serbian Orthodox church calendars and pamphlets | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent calendar=Theme |
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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