--- title: When Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia an… — Sarajevo · tree and pragmatics description: When Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia and achieved United Nations recognition, Serbian leaders declared a new Serbian national state, Republika Srpska (RS), which was carved out from the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Who acts: Bosnia, Serbian leaders. 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When Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia and achieved United Nations recognition, Serbian leaders declared a new Serbian national state, Republika Srpska (RS), which was carved out from the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. **Who acts:** Bosnia, Serbian leaders · **What happens:** declare, achieve, carve out · **To what, where:** independence, Yugoslavia, Nations recognition, new Serbian national state, Republika Srpska, territory This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sarajevo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bosnia, Serbian leaders), 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:Sarajevo:163 # text = When Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia and achieved United Nations recognition, Serbian leaders declared a new Serbian national state, Republika Srpska (RS), which was carved out from the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 Bosnia Bosnia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Herzegovina Herzegovina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 independence independence NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Yugoslavia Yugoslavia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 achieved achieve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 United United PROPN NNP _ 12 compound _ _ 12 Nations Nation PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 compound _ _ 13 recognition recognition NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 Serbian serbian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 leaders leader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 Serbian serbian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 Republika Republika PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 Srpska Srpska PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 RS RS PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 carved carve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 33 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 territory territory NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Bosnia Bosnia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 Herzegovina Herzegovina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Bosnia and Herzegovina | independence | | Yugoslavia | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute | | 2 | **achieve** | past | Bosnia and Herzegovina *not said here* | Nations recognition | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recognition=Eventuality | | 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Serbian leaders | a new Serbian national state | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Attribute | | 4 | **carve out** | past · passive | | Republika Srpska | | the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from territory=Material | 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, «Sarajevo», 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 162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sarajevo/162/) - next →: [sentence 164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sarajevo/164/) - ↑ back to [Sarajevo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Sarajevo/)