--- title: Self-taught people, mostly in two or three members of the different… — Bosnia and Herzegovina · tree and pragmatics description: Self-taught people, mostly in two or three members of the different choices of old instruments, mostly in the violin, sacking, saz, drums, flutes (zurle) or wooden flute, as others have already called, the original performers of Bosnian music that can not be written notes, transmitted by ear from ge --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina/518/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Bosnia and Herzegovina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina/) / 518 # Bosnia and Herzegovina, sentence 518 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. Self-taught people, mostly in two or three members of the different choices of old instruments, mostly in the violin, sacking, saz, drums, flutes (zurle) or wooden flute, as others have already called, the original performers of Bosnian music that can not be written notes, transmitted by ear from generation to generation, family is usually hereditary. **Who acts:** family · **What happens:** teach, sack, call, not write, transmit, be · **To what, where:** taught people, original performers, generation · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:518 # text = Self-taught people, mostly in two or three members of the different choices of old instruments, mostly in the violin, sacking, saz, drums, flutes (zurle) or wooden flute, as others have already called, the original performers of Bosnian music that can not be written notes, transmitted by ear from generation to generation, family is usually hereditary. 1 Self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 taught teach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 conj _ _ 11 members member NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 acl:relcl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 choices choice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 instruments instrument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 violin violin NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 sacking sack VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 saz saz NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 drums drum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 flutes flute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 zurle zurle NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 flute flute NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 as as SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 40 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 already already ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 original original ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 performers performer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 Bosnian bosnian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 51 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 55 nsubj:pass _ _ 52 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 53 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 55 advmod _ _ 54 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 55 aux:pass _ _ 55 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 acl:relcl _ _ 56 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 transmitted transmit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 acl _ _ 59 by by ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ _ 61 from from ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 62 generation generation NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ _ 63 to to ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 64 generation generation NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ _ 66 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 nsubj _ _ 67 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 69 cop _ _ 68 usually usually ADV RB _ 69 advmod _ _ 69 hereditary hereditary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 43 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | participle | | | | | | Self *compound* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sack** | gerund | | | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | present · perfect · passive | | taught people in two members of the different choices of old instruments in the violin and saz and drums and flutes or wooden flute | | | | the original performers of Bosnian music *obl*; others *nsubj:pass* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **write** | can · passive | | the original performers of Bosnian music | | | | notes *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient note=Topic | | 5 | **transmit** | participle | | the original performers of Bosnian music *not said here* | | | from generation to generation | by ear | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from generation=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **is** | present | family | | | | | hereditary, usually *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 517](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina/517/) - next →: [sentence 519](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina/519/) - ↑ back to [Bosnia and Herzegovina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina/)