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title: Following a positive recommendation of the European Commission and E… — Serbia · tree and pragmatics
description: Following a positive recommendation of the European Commission and European Council in June 2013, negotiations to join the EU commenced in January 2014. Who acts: negotiations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Serbia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Serbia, sentence 180

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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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Following a positive recommendation of the European Commission and European Council in June 2013, negotiations to join the EU commenced in January 2014.

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**Who acts:** negotiations · **What happens:** follow, join, commence, recommend · **To what, where:** EU, European Commission

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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 (negotiations), 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:180
# text = Following a positive recommendation of the European Commission and European Council in June 2013, negotiations to join the EU commenced in January 2014.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	positive	positive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	recommendation	recommendation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Commission	Commission	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	negotiations	negotiation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	EU	EU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	commenced	commence	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **join** | to-infinitive | negotiations *not said here* | the EU |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eu=Patient |
| 3 | **commence** | past | negotiations |  |  |  | january | follow a positive recommendation of the European Commission in June and European Council | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **recommend** |  |  | the European Commission in June and European Council |  |  |  |  | nom recommendation «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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