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title: The official language is Serbian, spoken as a mother tongue by 5,607… — Serbia · tree and pragmatics
description: The official language is Serbian, spoken as a mother tongue by 5,607,558 people, or 84.4% of the population, and predominant throughout most of the country. Who acts: official language. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Serbia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Serbia, sentence 471

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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 official language is Serbian, spoken as a mother tongue by 5,607,558 people, or 84.4% of the population, and predominant throughout most of the country.

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**Who acts:** official language · **What happens:** be, speak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (official language), 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:471
# text = The official language is Serbian, spoken as a mother tongue by 5,607,558 people, or 84.4% of the population, and predominant throughout most of the country.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Serbian	serbian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	5,607,558	5,607,558	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	84.4	84.4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	predominant	predominant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
25	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the official language |  |  |  |  | serbian *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as a mother tongue; 5,607,558 people *obl:agent* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** |  | the official language *not said here* |  |  |  | throughout most of the country |  | tree rules |

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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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