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title: Bishop Jovan was jailed for 18 months for "defaming the Macedonian O… — North Macedonia · tree and pragmatics
description: Bishop Jovan was jailed for 18 months for "defaming the Macedonian Orthodox church and harming the religious feelings of local citizens" by distributing Serbian Orthodox church calendars and pamphlets. A sentence of Wikipedia's «North Macedonia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# North Macedonia, sentence 425

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From Wikipedia, [«North Macedonia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Macedonia), 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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Bishop Jovan was jailed for 18 months for "defaming the Macedonian Orthodox church and harming the religious feelings of local citizens" by distributing Serbian Orthodox church calendars and pamphlets.

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**What happens:** jail, defame, harm, distribute · **To what, where:** Bishop, Orthodox church, religious feelings, Serbian Orthodox church calendars

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «North Macedonia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:North_Macedonia:425
# text = Bishop Jovan was jailed for 18 months for "defaming the Macedonian Orthodox church and harming the religious feelings of local citizens" by distributing Serbian Orthodox church calendars and pamphlets.
1	Bishop	Bishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Jovan	Jovan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	jailed	jail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	defaming	defame	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Macedonian	Macedonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Orthodox	Orthodox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	harming	harm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	distributing	distribute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
26	Serbian	serbian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	Orthodox	orthodox	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	calendars	calendar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	pamphlets	pamphlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jail** | past · passive |  | Bishop |  |  | month |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **defame** *in a quote* | gerund |  | the Orthodox church |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Theme |
| 3 | **harm** *in a quote* | gerund |  | the religious feelings of local citizens |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus feeling=Experiencer |
| 4 | **distribute** | gerund |  | Serbian Orthodox church calendars and pamphlets |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent calendar=Theme |

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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, «North Macedonia», 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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