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title: The country's military neutrality was formally proclaimed by a resol… — Serbia · tree and pragmatics
description: The country's military neutrality was formally proclaimed by a resolution adopted by Serbia's parliament in December 2007, which makes joining any military alliance contingent on a popular referendum, a stance acknowledged by NATO. Who acts: resolution, December. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Serbia» w
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# Serbia, sentence 305

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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 country's military neutrality was formally proclaimed by a resolution adopted by Serbia's parliament in December 2007, which makes joining any military alliance contingent on a popular referendum, a stance acknowledged by NATO.

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**Who acts:** resolution, December · **What happens:** proclaim, adopt, make, join, acknowledge · **To what, where:** military neutrality, resolution, military alliance contingent, popular referendum, stance

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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 (resolution, December), 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:305
# text = The country's military neutrality was formally proclaimed by a resolution adopted by Serbia's parliament in December 2007, which makes joining any military alliance contingent on a popular referendum, a stance acknowledged by NATO.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	neutrality	neutrality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	resolution	resolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	joining	join	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	obj	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
25	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	alliance	alliance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	contingent	contingent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	referendum	referendum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	stance	stance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
35	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	NATO	NATO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proclaim** | past · passive | a resolution | the country's military neutrality |  |  |  | formally *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **adopt** | participle |  | a resolution *not said here* |  |  | december | by Serbia's parliament | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | present | December  2007 |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **join** | gerund |  | any military alliance contingent |  | a popular referendum |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contingent=Patient |
| 5 | **acknowledge** | participle |  | a stance *not said here* |  |  |  | by NATO | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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