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title: Its national sitting volleyball team is one of the dominant forces i… — Bosnia and Herzegovina · tree and pragmatics
description: Its national sitting volleyball team is one of the dominant forces in the sport worldwide, winning nine European Championships, three World Championships and two Paralympic gold medals. Who acts: national sitting volleyball team. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bosnia and Herzegovina» with its dependency
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# Bosnia and Herzegovina, sentence 569

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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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Its national sitting volleyball team is one of the dominant forces in the sport worldwide, winning nine European Championships, three World Championships and two Paralympic gold medals.

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**Who acts:** national sitting volleyball team · **What happens:** sit, be, win · **To what, where:** one, nine European Championships

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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 (national sitting volleyball team), 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:569
# text = Its national sitting volleyball team is one of the dominant forces in the sport worldwide, winning nine European Championships, three World Championships and two Paralympic gold medals.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
4	volleyball	volleyball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	dominant	dominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	worldwide	worldwide	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
18	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Championships	championship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	World	world	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Championships	championship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
27	Paralympic	paralympic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	medals	medal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Many's national sitting volleyball team | one |  |  |  | of the dominant forces in the sport | tree rules |
| 3 | **win** | gerund | Many's national sitting volleyball team *not said here* | nine European Championships and three World Championships and two Paralympic gold medals |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent championship=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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