Serbia, sentence 305
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The country's military neutrality was formally proclaimed by a resolution adopted by Serbia's parliament in December 2007, which makes joining any military alliance contingent on a popular referendum, a stance acknowledged by NATO.
Who acts: resolution, December · What happens: proclaim, adopt, make, join, acknowledge · To what, where: military neutrality, resolution, military alliance contingent, popular referendum, stance
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 (resolution, December), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 neutrality | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 country | case |
| 4 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 neutrality | amod |
| 5 | neutrality | neutrality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 proclaimed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 proclaimed | aux:pass |
| 7 | formally | formally | ADV | _ | 8 proclaimed | advmod |
| 8 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 resolution | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 resolution | det |
| 11 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 proclaimed | obl |
| 12 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 resolution | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 parliament | case |
| 14 | Serbia | Serbia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 parliament | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Serbia | case |
| 16 | parliament | parliament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 adopted | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 December | case |
| 18 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 adopted | obl |
| 19 | 2007 | 2007 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 December | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 makes | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 makes | nsubj |
| 22 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 December | acl:relcl |
| 23 | joining | join | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 makes | obj |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 contingent | det |
| 25 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 contingent | amod |
| 26 | alliance | alliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 contingent | compound |
| 27 | contingent | contingent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 joining | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 referendum | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 referendum | det |
| 30 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 referendum | amod |
| 31 | referendum | referendum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 joining | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 stance | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 stance | det |
| 34 | stance | stance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 referendum | appos |
| 35 | acknowledged | acknowledge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 stance | acl |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 NATO | case |
| 37 | NATO | NATO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 acknowledged | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 proclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proclaim | past · passive | a resolution | the country's military neutrality | formally property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | adopt | participle | a resolution not said here | december | by Serbia's parliament | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | make | present | December 2007 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | join | gerund | any military alliance contingent | a popular referendum | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contingent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | acknowledge | participle | a stance not said here | by NATO | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=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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