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title: The European Union fears this will lead to further Balkanization in… — Bosnia and Herzegovina · tree and pragmatics
description: The European Union fears this will lead to further Balkanization in the region. Who acts: European Union, this. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bosnia and Herzegovina» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bosnia and Herzegovina, sentence 228

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From Wikipedia, [«Bosnia and Herzegovina»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina), 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 European Union fears this will lead to further Balkanization in the region.

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**Who acts:** European Union, this · **What happens:** fear, lead, further · **To what, where:** Balkanization, region · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bosnia and Herzegovina». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (European Union, this), 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:Bosnia_and_Herzegovina:228
# text = The European Union fears this will lead to further Balkanization in the region.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fears	fear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	further	further	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	Balkanization	Balkanization	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | present | the European Union |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lead** | future | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result |
| 3 | **further** | infinitive | this *not said here* | Balkanization |  | the region |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balkanization=Theme |

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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, «Bosnia and Herzegovina», 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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