Serbia, sentence 60
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In all Serbian lands conquered by the Ottomans, the native nobility was eliminated and the peasantry was enserfed to Ottoman rulers, while much of the clergy fled or were confined to the isolated monasteries.
Who acts: much · What happens: conquer, eliminate, enserf, flee, confine · To what, where: Serbian lands, native nobility, peasantry, isolated monasteries
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 (much), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 lands | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 lands | det |
| 3 | Serbian | serbian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lands | amod |
| 4 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 eliminated | obl |
| 5 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lands | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Ottomans | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ottomans | det |
| 8 | Ottomans | Ottoman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 conquered | obl:agent |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lands | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nobility | det |
| 11 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nobility | amod |
| 12 | nobility | nobility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eliminated | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 eliminated | aux:pass |
| 14 | eliminated | eliminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 enserfed | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 peasantry | det |
| 17 | peasantry | peasantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 enserfed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 enserfed | aux:pass |
| 19 | enserfed | enserf | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 eliminated | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 rulers | case |
| 21 | Ottoman | ottoman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rulers | amod |
| 22 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 enserfed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fled | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 fled | mark |
| 25 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fled | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 clergy | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 clergy | det |
| 28 | clergy | clergy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 much | nmod |
| 29 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 eliminated | parataxis |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 confined | cc |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 confined | aux:pass |
| 32 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 fled | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 monasteries | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 monasteries | det |
| 35 | isolated | isolated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 monasteries | amod |
| 36 | monasteries | monastery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 confined | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 eliminated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | participle | all Serbian lands not said here | the Ottomans obl:agent | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | eliminate | past · passive | the native nobility | all Serbian lands | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | enserf | past · passive | the peasantry | to Ottoman rulers | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | flee | past | much of the clergy | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | confine | past · passive | much of the clergy not said here | the isolated monasteries | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to monastery=Destination |
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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