Serbia, sentence 581
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.
The genre gained wider popularity during the interwar period through performers such as Sofka Nikolić, the earliest major star of popular music in Serbia, and was later continued by prominent singers including Predrag Živković Tozovac, Toma Zdravković, Lepa Lukić, and Miroslav Ilić.
Who acts: genre, prominent singers · What happens: gain, continue, include · To what, where: wider popularity, performers, Miroslav Ilić
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 (genre, prominent singers), 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 genre | det |
| 2 | genre | genre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gained | nsubj |
| 3 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 popularity | amod |
| 5 | popularity | popularity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gained | obj |
| 6 | during | during | ADP | _ | 9 period | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 period | det |
| 8 | interwar | interwar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 period | amod |
| 9 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gained | obl |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 performers | case |
| 11 | performers | performer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gained | obl |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 14 Sofka | case |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 such | fixed |
| 14 | Sofka | Sofka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 performers | nmod |
| 15 | Nikolić | Nikolić | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sofka | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 star | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 star | det |
| 18 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 star | amod |
| 19 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 star | amod |
| 20 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Sofka | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 music | case |
| 22 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 music | amod |
| 23 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 star | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Serbia | case |
| 25 | Serbia | Serbia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 music | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 continued | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 continued | cc |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 continued | aux:pass |
| 29 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 continued | advmod |
| 30 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gained | parataxis |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 singers | case |
| 32 | prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 singers | amod |
| 33 | singers | singer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 continued | obl |
| 34 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 Živković | case |
| 35 | Predrag | Predrag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Živković | compound |
| 36 | Živković | Živković | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 singers | nmod |
| 37 | Tozovac | Tozovac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Živković | flat |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Toma | punct |
| 39 | Toma | Toma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Živković | conj |
| 40 | Zdravković | Zdravković | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Toma | flat |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Lepa | punct |
| 42 | Lepa | Lepa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Živković | conj |
| 43 | Lukić | Lukić | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Lepa | flat |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Ilić | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 Ilić | cc |
| 46 | Miroslav | Miroslav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Ilić | compound |
| 47 | Ilić | Ilić | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 continued | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | past | the genre | wider popularity | performers such Sofka | during the interwar period | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent popularity=Theme | ||
| 2 | continue | past · passive | prominent singers include Predrag Živković and Toma and Lepa | Miroslav Ilić | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | include | gerund | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: 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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