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title: In all Serbian lands conquered by the Ottomans, the native nobility… — Serbia · tree and pragmatics
description: In all Serbian lands conquered by the Ottomans, the native nobility was eliminated and the peasantry was enserfed to Ottoman rulers, while much of the clergy fled or were confined to the isolated monasteries. Who acts: much. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Serbia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Serbia, sentence 60

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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 all Serbian lands conquered by the Ottomans, the native nobility was eliminated and the peasantry was enserfed to Ottoman rulers, while much of the clergy fled or were confined to the isolated monasteries.

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**Who acts:** much · **What happens:** conquer, eliminate, enserf, flee, confine · **To what, where:** Serbian lands, native nobility, peasantry, isolated monasteries

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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 (much), 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:60
# text = In all Serbian lands conquered by the Ottomans, the native nobility was eliminated and the peasantry was enserfed to Ottoman rulers, while much of the clergy fled or were confined to the isolated monasteries.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	Serbian	serbian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
5	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Ottomans	Ottoman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	nobility	nobility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	eliminated	eliminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	enserfed	enserf	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	clergy	clergy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	isolated	isolated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	monasteries	monastery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | participle |  | all Serbian lands *not said here* |  |  |  | the Ottomans *obl:agent* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eliminate** | past · passive |  | the native nobility |  | all Serbian lands |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **enserf** | past · passive |  | the peasantry |  |  |  | to Ottoman rulers | tree rules |
| 4 | **flee** | past | much of the clergy |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **confine** | past · passive | much of the clergy *not said here* |  |  | the isolated monasteries |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to monastery=Destination |

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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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