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title: The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 by… — Austria · tree and pragmatics
description: The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip was used by leading Austrian politicians and generals to persuade the emperor to declare war on Serbia, thereby risking and prompting the outbreak of World War I, which eventually led to the dissolution
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# Austria, sentence 90

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From Wikipedia, [«Austria»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip was used by leading Austrian politicians and generals to persuade the emperor to declare war on Serbia, thereby risking and prompting the outbreak of World War I, which eventually led to the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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**Who acts:** emperor, I, Bosnian Serb · **What happens:** use, lead, persuade, declare, risk, prompt · **To what, where:** assassination, Austrian politicians, emperor, war, Serbia, outbreak

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Austria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, I, Bosnian Serb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Austria:90
# text = The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip was used by leading Austrian politicians and generals to persuade the emperor to declare war on Serbia, thereby risking and prompting the outbreak of World War I, which eventually led to the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	assassination	assassination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Archduke	Archduke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Franz	Franz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
6	Ferdinand	Ferdinand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Sarajevo	Sarajevo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1914	1914	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Bosnian	bosnian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Serb	Serb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
14	Gavrilo	Gavrilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	Princip	Princip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	Austrian	austrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	politicians	politician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	generals	general	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	persuade	persuade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
30	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	risking	risk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	prompting	prompt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	outbreak	outbreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
46	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	dissolution	dissolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
53	Austro	Austro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	Hungarian	Hungarian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive |  | the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 by Bosnian Serb |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund |  | Austrian politicians and generals |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent politician=Theme |
| 3 | **persuade** | to-infinitive |  | the emperor |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent emperor=Patient clause=Result |
| 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the emperor *not said here* | war |  | Serbia |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute |
| 5 | **risk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | thereby *property* | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **prompt** | gerund |  | the outbreak of World War |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition outbreak=Patient |
| 7 | **lead** | past | I |  |  |  |  | to the dissolution of the Hungarian Empire; which *nsubj*; eventually *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to dissolution=Patient |
| 8 | **assassinate** |  | Bosnian Serb | Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo |  |  |  |  | nom assassination «communication transitive»: of=patient by=agent |
| 9 | **dissolve** |  |  | the Hungarian Empire |  |  |  |  | nom dissolution «process transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Austria», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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