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title: This narrowly surpassed the 55% threshold needed to validate the ref… — Montenegro · tree and pragmatics
description: This narrowly surpassed the 55% threshold needed to validate the referendum under the rules set by the European Union. Who acts: This, % threshold. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Montenegro» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Montenegro, sentence 124

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From Wikipedia, [«Montenegro»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro), 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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This narrowly surpassed the 55% threshold needed to validate the referendum under the rules set by the European Union.

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**Who acts:** This, % threshold · **What happens:** surpass, need, validate, set · **To what, where:** % threshold, referendum, rules

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Montenegro». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, % threshold), 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:Montenegro:124
# text = This narrowly surpassed the 55% threshold needed to validate the referendum under the rules set by the European Union.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	narrowly	narrowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	surpassed	surpass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	55	55	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	validate	validate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	referendum	referendum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surpass** | past | This | the % threshold |  |  |  | narrowly *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot threshold=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | participle |  | the % threshold *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **validate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the % threshold *not said here* | the referendum |  | the rules |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **set** | participle |  | the rules *not said here* |  |  |  | by the European Union | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by union=Destination |

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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, «Montenegro», 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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