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title: By the time of his death in 1353, he was successful in annexing terr… — Bosnia and Herzegovina · tree and pragmatics
description: By the time of his death in 1353, he was successful in annexing territories to the north and west, as well as Zahumlje and parts of Dalmatia. Who acts: Stephen. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bosnia and Herzegovina» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bosnia and Herzegovina, sentence 86

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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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By the time of his death in 1353, he was successful in annexing territories to the north and west, as well as Zahumlje and parts of Dalmatia.

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**Who acts:** Stephen · **What happens:** be, annex, die · **To what, where:** territories

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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 (Stephen), 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:86
# text = By the time of his death in 1353, he was successful in annexing territories to the north and west, as well as Zahumlje and parts of Dalmatia.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1353	1353	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	annexing	annex	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	west	west	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	25	cc	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	fixed	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
25	Zahumlje	Zahumlje	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Dalmatia	Dalmatia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Stephen |  |  |  | time | Zahumlje and parts of Dalmatia *obl*; successful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **annex** | gerund | Stephen *not said here* | territories |  |  |  | to the north | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Theme |
| 3 | **die** |  | Stephen |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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