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title: On 8 October 2008, the UN General Assembly resolved, on a proposal b… — Kosovo · tree and pragmatics
description: On 8 October 2008, the UN General Assembly resolved, on a proposal by Serbia, to ask the International Court of Justice to render an advisory opinion on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence. Who acts: UN General Assembly, Serbia, Kosovo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kosovo» with its de
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# Kosovo, sentence 249

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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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On 8 October 2008, the UN General Assembly resolved, on a proposal by Serbia, to ask the International Court of Justice to render an advisory opinion on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence.

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**Who acts:** UN General Assembly, Serbia, Kosovo · **What happens:** resolve, ask, render, propose, declare · **To what, where:** 8, International Court, advisory opinion, legality, independence

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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 (UN General Assembly, Serbia, Kosovo), 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:249
# text = On 8 October 2008, the UN General Assembly resolved, on a proposal by Serbia, to ask the International Court of Justice to render an advisory opinion on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
3	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
9	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	International	International	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Justice	Justice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	advisory	advisory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	legality	legality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	Kosovo	Kosovo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	declaration	declaration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past | the UN General Assembly |  |  | 8 |  | on a proposal by Serbia | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | the UN General Assembly *not said here* |  | the International Court of Justice |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent court=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **render** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the UN General Assembly *not said here* | a advisory opinion |  | the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme |
| 4 | **propose** |  | Serbia |  |  |  |  |  | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: by=agent |
| 5 | **declare** |  | Kosovo | independence |  |  |  |  | nom declaration «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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