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title: According to philologist Anton Mayer, the name Bosna could derive fr… — Bosnia and Herzegovina · tree and pragmatics
description: According to philologist Anton Mayer, the name Bosna could derive from Illyrian *Bass-an-as, which in turn could derive from the Proto-Indo-European root, meaning 'the running water'. Who acts: Anton, Bass. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bosnia and Herzegovina» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bosnia and Herzegovina, sentence 28

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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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According to philologist Anton Mayer, the name Bosna could derive from Illyrian \*Bass-an-as, which in turn could derive from the Proto-Indo-European root, meaning 'the running water'.

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**Who acts:** Anton, Bass · **What happens:** accord, derive, as, mean, run · **To what, where:** Illyrian, as, turn, running water

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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 (Anton, Bass), 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:28
# text = According to philologist Anton Mayer, the name Bosna could derive from Illyrian *Bass-an-as, which in turn could derive from the Proto-Indo-European root, meaning 'the running water'.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	philologist	philologist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Anton	Anton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	Mayer	Mayer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	Bosna	Bosna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	derive	derive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Illyrian	Illyrian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Bass	bass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	as	as	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	derive	derive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
28	Proto	Proto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Indo	Indo	X	AFX	_	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	amod	_	_
39	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **derive** | could | Anton accord philologist |  |  | Illyrian |  | the name *nsubj* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from illyrian=Material |
| 3 | **as** |  | Bass |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **derive** | could | Bass *not said here* | a as |  | turn |  | from the Proto European root | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent which=Result from root=Material |
| 5 | **mean** | gerund | Bass *not said here* | the running water |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic |
| 6 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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