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title: Serbia does not officially recognise Kosovo as a sovereign state and… — Kosovo · tree and pragmatics
description: Serbia does not officially recognise Kosovo as a sovereign state and continues to claim it as its constituent Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija; however, it accepts the governing authority of the Kosovo institutions as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Who acts: Serbia, recognition. A se
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# Kosovo, sentence 19

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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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Serbia does not officially recognise Kosovo as a sovereign state and continues to claim it as its constituent Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija; however, it accepts the governing authority of the Kosovo institutions as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement.

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**Who acts:** Serbia, recognition · **What happens:** not recognise, continue, claim, accept, govern · **To what, where:** Kosovo, recognition, governing authority

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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 (Serbia, recognition), 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:19
# text = Serbia does not officially recognise Kosovo as a sovereign state and continues to claim it as its constituent Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija; however, it accepts the governing authority of the Kosovo institutions as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement.
1	Serbia	serbia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Kosovo	Kosovo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	continues	continue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	constituent	constituent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	Autonomous	autonomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Province	Province	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Kosovo	Kosovo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Metohija	Metohija	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	however	however	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	accepts	accept	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	governing	govern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	amod	_	_
32	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Kosovo	Kosovo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	institutions	institution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	Brussels	brussels	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	Agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **recognise** | present · do-support | Serbia | Kosovo |  |  |  | as a sovereign state; officially *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer kosovo=Stimulus as state=Attribute |
| 2 | **continue** | present | Serbia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Serbia *not said here* | recognition |  |  |  | as recognition's constituent | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **accept** | present | recognition | the governing authority of the Kosovo institutions |  |  |  | as part of the Brussels Agreement; however *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent authority=Theme as part=Attribute |
| 5 | **govern** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: 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, «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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