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title: The constitution describes Montenegro as a "civic, democratic, ecolo… — Montenegro · tree and pragmatics
description: The constitution describes Montenegro as a "civic, democratic, ecological state of social justice, based on the reign of Law". Who acts: constitution. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Montenegro» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Montenegro, sentence 193

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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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The constitution describes Montenegro as a "civic, democratic, ecological state of social justice, based on the reign of Law".

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**Who acts:** constitution · **What happens:** describe, base · **To what, where:** Montenegro, social justice, reign

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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 (constitution), 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:193
# text = The constitution describes Montenegro as a "civic, democratic, ecological state of social justice, based on the reign of Law".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Montenegro	Montenegro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	civic	civic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	democratic	democratic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	ecological	ecological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present | the constitution | Montenegro |  |  |  | as a democratic ecological state of social justice | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent montenegro=Theme as state=Attribute |
| 2 | **base** *in a quote* | participle |  | social justice *not said here* |  | the reign of Law |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on reign=Source |

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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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