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title: Besides Marulić, Renaissance playwright Marin Držić, Baroque poet Iv… — Croatia · tree and pragmatics
description: Besides Marulić, Renaissance playwright Marin Držić, Baroque poet Ivan Gundulić, Croatian national revival poet Ivan Mažuranić, novelist, playwright, and poet August Šenoa, children's writer Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, writer and journalist Marija Jurić Zagorka, poet and writer Antun Gustav Matoš, poet A
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# Croatia, sentence 478

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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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Besides Marulić, Renaissance playwright Marin Držić, Baroque poet Ivan Gundulić, Croatian national revival poet Ivan Mažuranić, novelist, playwright, and poet August Šenoa, children's writer Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, writer and journalist Marija Jurić Zagorka, poet and writer Antun Gustav Matoš, poet Antun Branko Šimić, expressionist and realist writer Miroslav Krleža, poet Tin Ujević and novelist, and short story writer Ivo Andrić are often cited as the greatest figures in Croatian literature.

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**Who acts:** greatest figures · **What happens:** cite · **To what, where:** short story writer, Renaissance playwright

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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 (greatest figures), 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:478
# text = Besides Marulić, Renaissance playwright Marin Držić, Baroque poet Ivan Gundulić, Croatian national revival poet Ivan Mažuranić, novelist, playwright, and poet August Šenoa, children's writer Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, writer and journalist Marija Jurić Zagorka, poet and writer Antun Gustav Matoš, poet Antun Branko Šimić, expressionist and realist writer Miroslav Krleža, poet Tin Ujević and novelist, and short story writer Ivo Andrić are often cited as the greatest figures in Croatian literature.
1	Besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Marulić	Marulić	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Renaissance	Renaissance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	playwright	playwright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	Marin	Marin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	Držić	Držić	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Baroque	Baroque	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
12	Gundulić	Gundulić	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Croatian	croatian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	revival	revival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
18	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	Mažuranić	Mažuranić	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	novelist	novelist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	playwright	playwright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
28	Šenoa	Šenoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
33	Ivana	Ivana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
34	Brlić	Brlić	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Mažuranić	Mažuranić	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	journalist	journalist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	Marija	Marija	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
42	Jurić	Jurić	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	_
43	Zagorka	Zagorka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
48	Antun	Antun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	_
49	Gustav	Gustav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	flat	_	_
50	Matoš	Matoš	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
53	Antun	Antun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	appos	_	_
54	Branko	Branko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	flat	_	_
55	Šimić	Šimić	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	expressionist	expressionist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
59	realist	realist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
61	Miroslav	Miroslav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	appos	_	_
62	Krleža	Krleža	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
64	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
65	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	appos	_	_
66	Ujević	Ujević	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	flat	_	_
67	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	68	cc	_	_
68	novelist	novelist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	78	punct	_	_
70	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	78	cc	_	_
71	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	73	amod	_	_
72	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	compound	_	_
73	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	nsubj	_	_
74	Ivo	Ivo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	73	appos	_	_
75	Andrić	Andrić	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	74	flat	_	_
76	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	78	aux:pass	_	_
77	often	often	ADV	RB	_	78	advmod	_	_
78	cited	cite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
79	as	as	ADP	IN	_	82	case	_	_
80	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	82	det	_	_
81	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	82	amod	_	_
82	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	78	obl:agent	_	_
83	in	in	ADP	IN	_	85	case	_	_
84	Croatian	croatian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	85	amod	_	_
85	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	82	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
86	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cite** | present · passive | the greatest figures in Croatian literature | short story writer |  |  |  | often *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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