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title: Serbia's most powerful and influential politician in Tito-era Yugosl… — Serbia · tree and pragmatics
description: Serbia's most powerful and influential politician in Tito-era Yugoslavia was Aleksandar Ranković, one of the "big four" Yugoslav leaders. Who acts: powerful politician. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Serbia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Serbia, sentence 139

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From Wikipedia, [«Serbia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia), 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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Serbia's most powerful and influential politician in Tito-era Yugoslavia was Aleksandar Ranković, one of the "big four" Yugoslav leaders.

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**Who acts:** powerful politician · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Aleksandar

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Serbia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (powerful politician), 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:Serbia:139
# text = Serbia's most powerful and influential politician in Tito-era Yugoslavia was Aleksandar Ranković, one of the "big four" Yugoslav leaders.
1	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	influential	influential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	politician	politician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Tito	Tito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	era	era	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Yugoslavia	Yugoslavia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	Aleksandar	Aleksandar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	Ranković	Ranković	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
24	Yugoslav	Yugoslav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Serbia's powerful politician in Tito and era Yugoslavia | Aleksandar |  |  |  | one of the big four Yugoslav leaders *appos* | tree rules |

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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, «Serbia», 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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