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title: Bosnia is also believed to be first mentioned as a land (horion Boso… — Bosnia and Herzegovina · tree and pragmatics
description: Bosnia is also believed to be first mentioned as a land (horion Bosona) in Byzantine Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus' De Administrando Imperio in the mid 10th century, at the end of a chapter entitled Of the Serbs and the country in which they now dwell. Who acts: Bosnia. A sentence of Wikipedia
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# Bosnia and Herzegovina, sentence 70

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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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Bosnia is also believed to be first mentioned as a land (horion Bosona) in Byzantine Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus' De Administrando Imperio in the mid 10th century, at the end of a chapter entitled Of the Serbs and the country in which they now dwell.

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**Who acts:** Bosnia · **What happens:** believe, mention, entitle, dwell · **To what, where:** Bosnia, end, Byzantine Emperor Constantine, chapter, country

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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 (Bosnia), 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:70
# text = Bosnia is also believed to be first mentioned as a land (horion Bosona) in Byzantine Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus' De Administrando Imperio in the mid 10th century, at the end of a chapter entitled Of the Serbs and the country in which they now dwell.
1	Bosnia	Bosnia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
8	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	horion	horion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	Bosona	Bosona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Byzantine	byzantine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Constantine	Constantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
20	Porphyrogenitus	Porphyrogenitus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
23	Administrando	Administrando	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	Imperio	Imperio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	mid	mid	X	AFX	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	10th	10th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	29	amod	_	_
29	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	entitled	entitle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Serbs	serb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	obl	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
48	dwell	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present · passive |  | Bosnia |  |  | at the end of a chapter |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mention** *speech: other* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | Byzantine Emperor Constantine and Administrando | century | as a land; first *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
| 3 | **entitle** | participle |  | a chapter *not said here* |  |  |  | of the Serbs and the country | tree rules |
| 4 | **dwell** | present | Bosnia |  |  | the country | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |

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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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