---
title: When the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia refused to accept its defe… — Serbia · tree and pragmatics
description: When the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia refused to accept its defeat in municipal elections in 1996, Serbians engaged in large protests against the government. Who acts: ruling Socialist Party, Serbians, Party. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Serbia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Serbia/160/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Serbia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Serbia/) / 160

# Serbia, sentence 160

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
When the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia refused to accept its defeat in municipal elections in 1996, Serbians engaged in large protests against the government.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** ruling Socialist Party, Serbians, Party · **What happens:** rule, refuse, not accept, engage, defeat · **To what, where:** defeat, municipal elections, large protests

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (ruling Socialist Party, Serbians, Party), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:160
# text = When the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia refused to accept its defeat in municipal elections in 1996, Serbians engaged in large protests against the government.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	ruling	rule	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
4	Socialist	Socialist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Party	Party	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1996	1996	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
19	Serbians	Serbian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	engaged	engage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	protests	protest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	against	against	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **refuse** | past | the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **accept** | to-infinitive | the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia *not said here* | Party's defeat |  | municipal elections |  | in 1996 | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defeat=Theme |
| 4 | **engage** | past | Serbians |  |  |  |  | in large protests against the government *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in protest=Goal |
| 5 | **defeat** |  | Party |  |  |  |  |  | nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Serbia/159/)
- next →: [sentence 161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Serbia/161/)
- ↑ back to [Serbia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Serbia/)