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title: A unicameral parliament – known as the Sabor – holds legislative pow… — Croatia · tree and pragmatics
description: A unicameral parliament – known as the Sabor – holds legislative power. Who acts: unicameral parliament. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Croatia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Croatia, sentence 233

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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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A unicameral parliament – known as the Sabor – holds legislative power.

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**Who acts:** unicameral parliament · **What happens:** know, hold · **To what, where:** unicameral parliament, legislative power

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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 (unicameral parliament), 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:233
# text = A unicameral parliament – known as the Sabor – holds legislative power.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unicameral	unicameral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sabor	Sabor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	–	–	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	legislative	legislative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **know** | participle |  | a unicameral parliament *not said here* |  |  |  | as the Sabor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as sabor=Attribute |
| 2 | **hold** | present | a unicameral parliament | legislative power |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme |

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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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