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title: Prišt in Serbo-Croatian means "boil" and this may be a reference to… — Pristina · tree and pragmatics
description: Prišt in Serbo-Croatian means "boil" and this may be a reference to the seething waters of the nearby river Gračanka. Who acts: Prišt, this. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Pristina» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Pristina, sentence 27

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From Wikipedia, [«Pristina»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristina), 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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Prišt in Serbo-Croatian means "boil" and this may be a reference to the seething waters of the nearby river Gračanka.

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**Who acts:** Prišt, this · **What happens:** mean, be, seethe · **To what, where:** boil, reference

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Pristina». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prišt, this), 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:Pristina:27
# text = Prišt in Serbo-Croatian means "boil" and this may be a reference to the seething waters of the nearby river Gračanka.
1	Prišt	Prišt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Serbo	Serbo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Croatian	croatian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	boil	boil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	seething	seethe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	nearby	nearby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	Gračanka	Gračanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Prišt in Serbo | boil and a reference |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boil=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | may | this | a reference |  |  |  | to the seething waters of the nearby river | tree rules |
| 3 | **seethe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location |

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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, «Pristina», 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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