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title: In the field of contemporary performance art, Serbia is globally rec… — Serbia · tree and pragmatics
description: In the field of contemporary performance art, Serbia is globally recognized as the origin of groundbreaking experimental art, most notably through Marina Abramović, one of the world's most influential performance artists known for her pioneering body art and endurance pieces. Who acts: groundbreakin
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# Serbia, sentence 543

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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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In the field of contemporary performance art, Serbia is globally recognized as the origin of groundbreaking experimental art, most notably through Marina Abramović, one of the world's most influential performance artists known for her pioneering body art and endurance pieces.

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**Who acts:** groundbreaking · **What happens:** recognize, know, pioneer · **To what, where:** Serbia, field, influential performance artists, body art

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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 (groundbreaking), 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:543
# text = In the field of contemporary performance art, Serbia is globally recognized as the origin of groundbreaking experimental art, most notably through Marina Abramović, one of the world's most influential performance artists known for her pioneering body art and endurance pieces.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	globally	globally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	groundbreaking	groundbreaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	experimental	experimental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	notably	notably	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Marina	Marina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
25	Abramović	Abramović	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	33	advmod	_	_
33	influential	influential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
36	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
37	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	pioneering	pioneer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
40	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	endurance	endurance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognize** | present · passive |  | Serbia |  | the field of contemporary performance art |  | as the origin of experimental art  groundbreaking; through Marina; globally *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as origin=Attribute |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | the world's influential performance artists *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **pioneer** | gerund | groundbreaking | body art and endurance pieces |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Beneficiary |

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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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