Serbia, sentence 93
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.
In two years, Serbia enlarged its territory by 80% and its population by 50%, it also suffered high casualties on the eve of World War I, with more than 36,000 dead.
Who acts: Serbia, League · What happens: enlarge, suffer · To what, where: territory, high casualties, eve
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 (Serbia, League), 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 | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 enlarged | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 years | punct |
| 5 | Serbia | Serbia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 enlarged | nsubj |
| 6 | enlarged | enlarge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 territory | nmod:poss |
| 8 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enlarged | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 % | case |
| 10 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 % | nummod |
| 11 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 6 enlarged | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 population | cc |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 population | nmod:poss |
| 14 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 % | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 % | case |
| 16 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 % | nummod |
| 17 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 6 enlarged | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 suffered | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 suffered | nsubj |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 suffered | advmod |
| 21 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enlarged | parataxis |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 casualties | amod |
| 23 | casualties | casualty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 suffered | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 eve | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 eve | det |
| 26 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 suffered | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 War | case |
| 28 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 War | compound |
| 29 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 eve | nmod |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 War | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 dead | punct |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 dead | case |
| 33 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 35 36,000 | advmod |
| 34 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 more | fixed |
| 35 | 36,000 | 36,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 dead | nummod |
| 36 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 suffered | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 enlarged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enlarge | past | Serbia | League's territory | year | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent territory=Patient | |||
| 2 | suffer | past | League | high casualties | the eve of World War I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer casualty=Stimulus |
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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