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title: In the villages, especially in Herzegovina, Bosniaks, Serbs and Croa… — Bosnia and Herzegovina · tree and pragmatics
description: In the villages, especially in Herzegovina, Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats play the ancient gusle. Who acts: Serbs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bosnia and Herzegovina» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bosnia and Herzegovina, sentence 505

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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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In the villages, especially in Herzegovina, Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats play the ancient gusle.

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**Who acts:** Serbs · **What happens:** play · **To what, where:** ancient gusle, villages

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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 (Serbs), 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:505
# text = In the villages, especially in Herzegovina, Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats play the ancient gusle.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Herzegovina	Herzegovina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Bosniaks	Bosniaks	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	Serbs	serb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Croats	croat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	gusle	gusle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | Serbs and Croats | the ancient gusle |  | the villages in Herzegovina |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gusle=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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