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title: The Yugoslav government retained control of defence, internal securi… — Croatia · tree and pragmatics
description: The Yugoslav government retained control of defence, internal security, foreign affairs, trade, and transport while other matters were left to the Croatian Sabor and a crown-appointed Ban. Who acts: Yugoslav government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Croatia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Croatia, sentence 107

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From Wikipedia, [«Croatia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia), 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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The Yugoslav government retained control of defence, internal security, foreign affairs, trade, and transport while other matters were left to the Croatian Sabor and a crown-appointed Ban.

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**Who acts:** Yugoslav government · **What happens:** retain, leave, appoint · **To what, where:** control, other matters, Croatian Sabor

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Croatia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yugoslav government), 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:Croatia:107
# text = The Yugoslav government retained control of defence, internal security, foreign affairs, trade, and transport while other matters were left to the Croatian Sabor and a crown-appointed Ban.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Yugoslav	Yugoslav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	retained	retain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	internal	internal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	transport	transport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Croatian	croatian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Sabor	Sabor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	Ban	Ban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retain** | past | the Yugoslav government | control of defence  trade and internal security and foreign affairs |  |  |  | transport *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | past · passive |  | other matters | the Croatian Sabor and a appointed Ban |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to sabor=Recipient |
| 3 | **appoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | crown *compound* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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, «Croatia», 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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