Serbia, sentence 600
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.
Serbian theatre has been shaped by playwrights such as Jovan Sterija Popović and Branislav Nušić, while contemporary theatre is represented by acclaimed writers such as Dušan Kovačević and Biljana Srbljanović.
Who acts: playwrights, acclaimed writers · What happens: shape, represent, acclaim · To what, where: Serbian theatre, contemporary theatre
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 (playwrights, acclaimed writers), 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 | Serbian | serbian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 theatre | amod |
| 2 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shaped | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shaped | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 shaped | aux:pass |
| 5 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 playwrights | case |
| 7 | playwrights | playwright | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shaped | obl |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 11 Sterija | case |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 such | fixed |
| 10 | Jovan | Jovan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sterija | compound |
| 11 | Sterija | Sterija | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 playwrights | nmod |
| 12 | Popović | Popović | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sterija | flat |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Branislav | cc |
| 14 | Branislav | Branislav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sterija | conj |
| 15 | Nušić | Nušić | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Branislav | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 represented | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 represented | mark |
| 18 | contemporary | contemporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 theatre | amod |
| 19 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 represented | aux:pass |
| 21 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 shaped | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 writers | case |
| 23 | acclaimed | acclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 writers | amod |
| 24 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 represented | obl:agent |
| 25 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 27 Dušan | case |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 such | fixed |
| 27 | Dušan | Dušan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 writers | nmod |
| 28 | Kovačević | Kovačević | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Dušan | flat |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Biljana | cc |
| 30 | Biljana | Biljana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Dušan | conj |
| 31 | Srbljanović | Srbljanović | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Biljana | flat |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | present · perfect · passive | playwrights such Jovan Sterija and Branislav | Serbian theatre | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | represent | present · passive | acclaimed writers such Dušan and Biljana | contemporary theatre | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | acclaim | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «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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