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title: A fragment of a hominid jaw found in Sićevo (Mala Balanica) is belie… — Serbia · tree and pragmatics
description: A fragment of a hominid jaw found in Sićevo (Mala Balanica) is believed to be up to 525,000–397,000 years old. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Serbia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Serbia, sentence 30

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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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A fragment of a hominid jaw found in Sićevo (Mala Balanica) is believed to be up to 525,000–397,000 years old.

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**What happens:** find, believe up · **To what, where:** fragment, Sićevo

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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:30
# text = A fragment of a hominid jaw found in Sićevo (Mala Balanica) is believed to be up to 525,000–397,000 years old.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fragment	fragment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hominid	hominid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	jaw	jaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Sićevo	Sićevo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Mala	Mala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	Balanica	Balanica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	525,000	525,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	397,000	397,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | participle |  | a fragment of a hominid jaw *not said here* |  | Sićevo |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **believe up** | present · passive |  | a fragment of a hominid jaw |  |  |  | to 525,000 | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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