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title: Serbians claim their country as the birthplace of rakia (rakija), a… — Serbia · tree and pragmatics
description: Serbians claim their country as the birthplace of rakia (rakija), a highly alcoholic fruit brandy, although it is found in various forms throughout the Balkans. Who acts: Serbians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Serbia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Serbia, sentence 642

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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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Serbians claim their country as the birthplace of rakia (rakija), a highly alcoholic fruit brandy, although it is found in various forms throughout the Balkans.

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**Who acts:** Serbians · **What happens:** claim, find · **To what, where:** country, various forms

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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 (Serbians), 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:642
# text = Serbians claim their country as the birthplace of rakia (rakija), a highly alcoholic fruit brandy, although it is found in various forms throughout the Balkans.
1	Serbians	serbian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	claim	claim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	birthplace	birthplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	rakia	rakia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	rakija	rakija	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	alcoholic	alcoholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	brandy	brandy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Balkans	Balkan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | Serbians | patty's country |  |  |  | as the birthplace of rakia and a alcoholic fruit brandy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent country=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | present · passive |  | country |  | various forms throughout the Balkans |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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