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title: The National Assembly of Serbia declared Serbia to be the legal succ… — Serbia · tree and pragmatics
description: The National Assembly of Serbia declared Serbia to be the legal successor to the former state union. Who acts: National Assembly. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Serbia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Serbia, sentence 174

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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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The National Assembly of Serbia declared Serbia to be the legal successor to the former state union.

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**Who acts:** National Assembly · **What happens:** declare, be · **To what, where:** Serbia, legal successor

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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 (National Assembly), 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:174
# text = The National Assembly of Serbia declared Serbia to be the legal successor to the former state union.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	successor	successor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the National Assembly of Serbia | Serbia |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serbia=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the National Assembly of Serbia *not said here* | the legal successor |  |  |  | to the former state union | 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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