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title: The most important inland waterway is the Danube which connects coun… — Serbia · tree and pragmatics
description: The most important inland waterway is the Danube which connects country with the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean through the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal as well as to the Black Sea through the Danube–Black Sea Canal. Who acts: important inland waterway. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Serbia» with its dependenc
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# Serbia, sentence 437

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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 most important inland waterway is the Danube which connects country with the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean through the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal as well as to the Black Sea through the Danube–Black Sea Canal.

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**Who acts:** important inland waterway · **What happens:** be, connect · **To what, where:** Danube, country, Rhine

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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 (important inland waterway), 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:437
# text = The most important inland waterway is the Danube which connects country with the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean through the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal as well as to the Black Sea through the Danube–Black Sea Canal.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	inland	inland	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	waterway	waterway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Danube	Danube	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	connects	connect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Rhine	Rhine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Main	Main	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Danube	Danube	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Canal	Canal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	33	cc	_	_
28	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	fixed	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
34	through	through	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
36	Danube	Danube	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	–	–	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Canal	Canal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Danube |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **connect** | present | the important inland waterway | country |  | the Rhine and Main and Danube Canal as the Black Sea |  | with the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean; through the Sea Canal; which *nsubj* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent country=Patient with sea=Co-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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