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title: Despite a decline in recent decades, Hungarians remain the largest e… — Serbia · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite a decline in recent decades, Hungarians remain the largest ethnic minority, with a population of 184,442, accounting for 2.8% of the country's population and concentrated predominantly in northern Vojvodina. Who acts: Hungarians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Serbia» with its dependency tree an
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# Serbia, sentence 452

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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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Despite a decline in recent decades, Hungarians remain the largest ethnic minority, with a population of 184,442, accounting for 2.8% of the country's population and concentrated predominantly in northern Vojvodina.

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**Who acts:** Hungarians · **What happens:** remain, account, concentrate · **To what, where:** largest ethnic minority, northern Vojvodina

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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 (Hungarians), 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:452
# text = Despite a decline in recent decades, Hungarians remain the largest ethnic minority, with a population of 184,442, accounting for 2.8% of the country's population and concentrated predominantly in northern Vojvodina.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	decline	decline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	Hungarians	Hungarian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
12	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	minority	minority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	184,442	184,442	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	accounting	account	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	2.8	2.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	concentrated	concentrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
32	predominantly	predominantly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Vojvodina	Vojvodina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present | Hungarians | the largest ethnic minority |  |  |  | despite a decline in recent decades | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme minority=Attribute |
| 2 | **account** | gerund | Hungarians *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **concentrate** | past | Hungarians *not said here* |  |  | northern Vojvodina |  | predominantly *property* | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: 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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