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title: A decree from Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito, followed by a new law… — Kosovo · tree and pragmatics
description: A decree from Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito, followed by a new law in August 1945 disallowed the return of colonists who had taken land from Albanian peasants. Who acts: decree, colonists. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kosovo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kosovo, sentence 152

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From Wikipedia, [«Kosovo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo), 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 decree from Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito, followed by a new law in August 1945 disallowed the return of colonists who had taken land from Albanian peasants.

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**Who acts:** decree, colonists · **What happens:** follow, disallow, take, return · **To what, where:** decree, return, land

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kosovo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (decree, colonists), 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:Kosovo:152
# text = A decree from Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito, followed by a new law in August 1945 disallowed the return of colonists who had taken land from Albanian peasants.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Yugoslav	Yugoslav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	Josip	Josip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	Broz	Broz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	Tito	Tito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	1945	1945	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	disallowed	disallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	colonists	colonist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Albanian	Albanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | participle |  | a decree from Yugoslav leader *not said here* |  |  |  | by a new law in August  1945 | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by law=Location |
| 2 | **disallow** | past | a decree from Yugoslav leader | the return of colonists |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past · perfect | colonists | land |  |  |  | from Albanian peasants | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent land=Theme from peasant=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **return** |  | colonists |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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, «Kosovo», 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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