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title: The genre gained wider popularity during the interwar period through… — Serbia · tree and pragmatics
description: The genre gained wider popularity during the interwar period through performers such as Sofka Nikolić, the earliest major star of popular music in Serbia, and was later continued by prominent singers including Predrag Živković Tozovac, Toma Zdravković, Lepa Lukić, and Miroslav Ilić. Who acts: genre,
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# Serbia, sentence 581

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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 genre gained wider popularity during the interwar period through performers such as Sofka Nikolić, the earliest major star of popular music in Serbia, and was later continued by prominent singers including Predrag Živković Tozovac, Toma Zdravković, Lepa Lukić, and Miroslav Ilić.

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**Who acts:** genre, prominent singers · **What happens:** gain, continue, include · **To what, where:** wider popularity, performers, Miroslav Ilić

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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 (genre, prominent singers), 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:581
# text = The genre gained wider popularity during the interwar period through performers such as Sofka Nikolić, the earliest major star of popular music in Serbia, and was later continued by prominent singers including Predrag Živković Tozovac, Toma Zdravković, Lepa Lukić, and Miroslav Ilić.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	genre	genre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	popularity	popularity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	during	during	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	interwar	interwar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	performers	performer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	Sofka	Sofka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	Nikolić	Nikolić	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
19	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
29	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	singers	singer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	case	_	_
35	Predrag	Predrag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Živković	Živković	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	Tozovac	Tozovac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	Toma	Toma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
40	Zdravković	Zdravković	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	Lepa	Lepa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
43	Lukić	Lukić	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	Miroslav	Miroslav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	Ilić	Ilić	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | past | the genre | wider popularity |  | performers such Sofka | during the interwar period |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent popularity=Theme |
| 2 | **continue** | past · passive | prominent singers include Predrag Živković and Toma and Lepa | Miroslav Ilić |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: 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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