Sarajevo, sentence 163
From Wikipedia, «Sarajevo», 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.
When Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia and achieved United Nations recognition, Serbian leaders declared a new Serbian national state, Republika Srpska (RS), which was carved out from the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Who acts: Bosnia, Serbian leaders · What happens: declare, achieve, carve out · To what, where: independence, Yugoslavia, Nations recognition, new Serbian national state, Republika Srpska, territory
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sarajevo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bosnia, Serbian leaders), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 declared | advmod |
| 2 | Bosnia | Bosnia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 declared | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Herzegovina | cc |
| 4 | Herzegovina | Herzegovina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bosnia | conj |
| 5 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 declared | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Yugoslavia | case |
| 8 | Yugoslavia | Yugoslavia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 declared | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 achieved | cc |
| 10 | achieved | achieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 declared | conj |
| 11 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 12 Nations | compound |
| 12 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 recognition | compound |
| 13 | recognition | recognition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 achieved | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 declared | punct |
| 15 | Serbian | serbian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 leaders | amod |
| 16 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 declared | nsubj |
| 17 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 recognition | acl:relcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 state | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 state | amod |
| 20 | Serbian | serbian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 state | amod |
| 21 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 state | amod |
| 22 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 declared | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Srpska | punct |
| 24 | Republika | Republika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Srpska | compound |
| 25 | Srpska | Srpska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 state | appos |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 RS | punct |
| 27 | RS | RS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Srpska | appos |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 RS | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 carved | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 carved | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 carved | aux:pass |
| 32 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 Srpska | acl |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 carved | compound:prt |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 territory | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 territory | det |
| 36 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 carved | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Bosnia | case |
| 38 | Bosnia | Bosnia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 territory | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 Herzegovina | cc |
| 40 | Herzegovina | Herzegovina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Bosnia | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | Bosnia and Herzegovina | independence | Yugoslavia | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute | |||
| 2 | achieve | past | Bosnia and Herzegovina not said here | Nations recognition | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recognition=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | Serbian leaders | a new Serbian national state | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | carve out | past · passive | Republika Srpska | the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from territory=Material |
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, «Sarajevo», 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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