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title: In 1882, Principality of Serbia became the Kingdom of Serbia, ruled… — Serbia · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1882, Principality of Serbia became the Kingdom of Serbia, ruled by King Milan I. The House of Karađorđević, descendants of the revolutionary leader Karađorđe Petrović, assumed power in 1903 following the May Overthrow. Who acts: Principality, descendants. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Serbia» with 
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# Serbia, sentence 89

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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 1882, Principality of Serbia became the Kingdom of Serbia, ruled by King Milan I. The House of Karađorđević, descendants of the revolutionary leader Karađorđe Petrović, assumed power in 1903 following the May Overthrow.

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**Who acts:** Principality, descendants · **What happens:** become, rule, assume, follow · **To what, where:** descendants, 1882, Kingdom, May Overthrow

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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 (Principality, descendants), 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:89
# text = In 1882, Principality of Serbia became the Kingdom of Serbia, ruled by King Milan I. The House of Karađorđević, descendants of the revolutionary leader Karađorđe Petrović, assumed power in 1903 following the May Overthrow.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1882	1882	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Principality	principality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	Milan	Milan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Karađorđević	Karađorđević	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	descendants	descendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	revolutionary	revolutionary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	Karađorđe	Karađorđe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
29	Petrović	Petrović	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	assumed	assume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	1903	1903	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nmod	_	_
35	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Overthrow	Overthrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Principality of Serbia | descendants of the revolutionary leader and assumed power in 1903 |  |  |  | in 1882 *result*; the Kingdom of Serbia *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1882=Result |
| 2 | **rule** | participle |  | the Kingdom of Serbia *not said here* |  |  |  | by King Milan I. and the House of Karađorđević | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **assume** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund | descendants of the revolutionary leader and assumed power in 1903 *not said here* | the May Overthrow |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent overthrow=Theme |

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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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