Serbia, sentence 642
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.
Serbians claim their country as the birthplace of rakia (rakija), a highly alcoholic fruit brandy, although it is found in various forms throughout the Balkans.
Who acts: Serbians · What happens: claim, find · To what, where: country, various forms
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 (Serbians), 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 | Serbians | serbian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 claim | nsubj |
| 2 | claim | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 country | nmod:poss |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 claim | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 birthplace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 birthplace | det |
| 7 | birthplace | birthplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 claim | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rakia | case |
| 9 | rakia | rakia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 birthplace | nmod |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 rakija | punct |
| 11 | rakija | rakija | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 rakia | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 rakija | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brandy | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 brandy | det |
| 15 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 16 alcoholic | advmod |
| 16 | alcoholic | alcoholic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 brandy | amod |
| 17 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brandy | compound |
| 18 | brandy | brandy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 birthplace | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 20 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 23 found | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 found | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 found | aux:pass |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 claim | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 forms | case |
| 25 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 forms | amod |
| 26 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 found | obl |
| 27 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 29 Balkans | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Balkans | det |
| 29 | Balkans | Balkan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 forms | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 claim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | present | Serbians | patty's country | as the birthplace of rakia and a alcoholic fruit brandy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent country=Topic | |||
| 2 | find | present · passive | country | various forms throughout the Balkans | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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