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title: Serbia officially applied for membership in the European Union on 22… — Serbia · tree and pragmatics
description: Serbia officially applied for membership in the European Union on 22 December 2009. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Serbia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Serbia, sentence 298

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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 officially applied for membership in the European Union on 22 December 2009.

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**What happens:** apply · **To what, where:** Serbia, 22

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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: 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:298
# text = Serbia officially applied for membership in the European Union on 22 December 2009.
1	Serbia	serbia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	membership	membership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
12	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apply** | participle · passive |  | Serbia |  | 22  December  2009 |  | for membership in the European Union; officially *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for membership=Eventuality |

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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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