Serbia, sentence 160
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When the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia refused to accept its defeat in municipal elections in 1996, Serbians engaged in large protests against the government.
Who acts: ruling Socialist Party, Serbians, Party · What happens: rule, refuse, not accept, engage, defeat · To what, where: defeat, municipal elections, large protests
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Serbia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ruling Socialist Party, Serbians, Party), 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 | 8 refused | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Party | det |
| 3 | ruling | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Party | amod |
| 4 | Socialist | Socialist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Party | compound |
| 5 | Party | Party | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 refused | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Serbia | case |
| 7 | Serbia | Serbia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Party | nmod |
| 8 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 engaged | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 accept | mark |
| 10 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 refused | xcomp |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 defeat | nmod:poss |
| 12 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 accept | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 elections | case |
| 14 | municipal | municipal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 elections | amod |
| 15 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 accept | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1996 | case |
| 17 | 1996 | 1996 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 accept | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 refused | punct |
| 19 | Serbians | Serbian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 engaged | nsubj |
| 20 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 protests | case |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 protests | amod |
| 23 | protests | protest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 engaged | obl |
| 24 | against | against | ADP | _ | 26 government | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 government | det |
| 26 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 protests | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | gerund | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | refuse | past | the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not accept | to-infinitive | the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia not said here | Party's defeat | municipal elections | in 1996 | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defeat=Theme | ||
| 4 | engage | past | Serbians | in large protests against the government goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in protest=Goal | ||||
| 5 | defeat | Party | nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=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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