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title: Serbian theatre has been shaped by playwrights such as Jovan Sterija… — Serbia · tree and pragmatics
description: Serbian theatre has been shaped by playwrights such as Jovan Sterija Popović and Branislav Nušić, while contemporary theatre is represented by acclaimed writers such as Dušan Kovačević and Biljana Srbljanović. Who acts: playwrights, acclaimed writers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Serbia» with its depe
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# Serbia, sentence 600

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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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Serbian theatre has been shaped by playwrights such as Jovan Sterija Popović and Branislav Nušić, while contemporary theatre is represented by acclaimed writers such as Dušan Kovačević and Biljana Srbljanović.

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**Who acts:** playwrights, acclaimed writers · **What happens:** shape, represent, acclaim · **To what, where:** Serbian theatre, contemporary theatre

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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 (playwrights, acclaimed writers), 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:600
# text = Serbian theatre has been shaped by playwrights such as Jovan Sterija Popović and Branislav Nušić, while contemporary theatre is represented by acclaimed writers such as Dušan Kovačević and Biljana Srbljanović.
1	Serbian	serbian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	playwrights	playwright	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	Jovan	Jovan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Sterija	Sterija	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	Popović	Popović	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Branislav	Branislav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	Nušić	Nušić	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	acclaimed	acclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:agent	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	27	case	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	Dušan	Dušan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	Kovačević	Kovačević	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	Biljana	Biljana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	Srbljanović	Srbljanović	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shape** | present · perfect · passive | playwrights such Jovan Sterija and Branislav | Serbian theatre |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **represent** | present · passive | acclaimed writers such Dušan and Biljana | contemporary theatre |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |
| 3 | **acclaim** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «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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