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title: Conflict between the Illyrians and Romans started in 229 BCE, but Ro… — Bosnia and Herzegovina · tree and pragmatics
description: Conflict between the Illyrians and Romans started in 229 BCE, but Rome did not complete its annexation of the region until AD 9. Who acts: Conflict, Rome. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bosnia and Herzegovina» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bosnia and Herzegovina, sentence 55

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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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Conflict between the Illyrians and Romans started in 229 BCE, but Rome did not complete its annexation of the region until AD 9.

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**Who acts:** Conflict, Rome · **What happens:** start, not complete · **To what, where:** 229, annexation

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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 (Conflict, Rome), 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:55
# text = Conflict between the Illyrians and Romans started in 229 BCE, but Rome did not complete its annexation of the region until AD 9.
1	Conflict	Conflict	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	between	between	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Illyrians	Illyrian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
7	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	229	229	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
10	BCE	BCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	complete	complete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	annexation	annexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	until	until	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | Conflict between the Illyrians and Romans |  |  | 229  BCE |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **complete** | past · do-support | Rome | megalithic's annexation of the region |  |  | until AD |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent annexation=Eventuality |

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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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