--- title: as of 2019 12 the newly adopted Law on Religion, which de jure trans… — Montenegro · tree and pragmatics description: as of 2019 12 the newly adopted Law on Religion, which de jure transferred the ownership of church buildings and estates built before 1918 from the Serbian Orthodox Church to the Montenegrin state, sparked large protests and road blockages. Who acts: adopted Law, Montenegrin state. 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The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too. as of 2019 12 the newly adopted Law on Religion, which de jure transferred the ownership of church buildings and estates built before 1918 from the Serbian Orthodox Church to the Montenegrin state, sparked large protests and road blockages. **Who acts:** adopted Law, Montenegrin state · **What happens:** adopt, transfer, build, spark · **To what, where:** ownership, church buildings, Serbian Orthodox Church, large protests 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 (adopted Law, Montenegrin state), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:154 # text = as of 2019 12 the newly adopted Law on Religion, which de jure transferred the ownership of church buildings and estates built before 1918 from the Serbian Orthodox Church to the Montenegrin state, sparked large protests and road blockages. 1 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 4 case _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 2019 2019 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 compound _ _ 4 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 newly newly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 adopted adopt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 Law Law PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Religion Religion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 8 flat:foreign _ _ 14 jure jure X FW Foreign=Yes 13 flat _ _ 15 transferred transfer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ownership ownership NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 estates estate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 24 before before ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 1918 1918 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 Serbian serbian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 Orthodox Orthodox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Church Church PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 Montenegrin Montenegrin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 sparked spark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 37 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 protests protest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 blockages blockage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **adopt** | participle | | | | | | newly *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **transfer** | past | the adopted Law on Religion | the ownership of church buildings and estates | | | | as 2019 12 | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent ownership=Theme | | 3 | **build** | participle | | church buildings and estates *not said here* | | the Serbian Orthodox Church | before 1918 | to the Montenegrin state | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from church=Material | | 4 | **spark** | participle | the Montenegrin state *not said here* | large protests and road blockages | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition protest=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Montenegro/153/) - next →: [sentence 155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Montenegro/155/) - ↑ back to [Montenegro](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Montenegro/)