Serbia, sentence 180
From Wikipedia, «Serbia», 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.
Following a positive recommendation of the European Commission and European Council in June 2013, negotiations to join the EU commenced in January 2014.
Who acts: negotiations · What happens: follow, join, commence, recommend · To what, where: EU, European Commission
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 (negotiations), 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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 recommendation | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 recommendation | det |
| 3 | positive | positive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 recommendation | amod |
| 4 | recommendation | recommendation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 commenced | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Commission | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Commission | det |
| 7 | European | European | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Commission | compound |
| 8 | Commission | Commission | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 recommendation | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Council | cc |
| 10 | European | European | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Council | compound |
| 11 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Commission | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 June | case |
| 13 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Commission | nmod |
| 14 | 2013 | 2013 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 June | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 negotiations | punct |
| 16 | negotiations | negotiation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 commenced | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 join | mark |
| 18 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 negotiations | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 EU | det |
| 20 | EU | EU | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 join | obj |
| 21 | commenced | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 January | case |
| 23 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 commenced | obl |
| 24 | 2014 | 2014 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 January | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 commenced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | join | to-infinitive | negotiations not said here | the EU | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eu=Patient | ||||
| 3 | commence | past | negotiations | january | follow a positive recommendation of the European Commission in June and European Council | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | recommend | the European Commission in June and European Council | nom recommendation «communication transitive»: of=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.
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