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title: The gusle is used mainly to recite epic poems in a usually dramatic… — Bosnia and Herzegovina · tree and pragmatics
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# Bosnia and Herzegovina, sentence 506

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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 gusle is used mainly to recite epic poems in a usually dramatic tone.

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**What happens:** use, recite · **To what, where:** gusle, epic poems, dramatic tone

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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: 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:506
# text = The gusle is used mainly to recite epic poems in a usually dramatic tone.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gusle	gusle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	recite	recite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	epic	epic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive |  | the gusle |  |  |  | mainly *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **recite** | to-infinitive |  | epic poems |  | a dramatic tone |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=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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