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title: Opposition to the regime was mostly limited to intellectual and lite… — Slovenia · tree and pragmatics
description: Opposition to the regime was mostly limited to intellectual and literary circles and became especially vocal after Tito's death in 1980 when the economic and political situation in Yugoslavia became very strained. Who acts: economic situation, Tito. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Slovenia» with its depe
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# Slovenia, sentence 142

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From Wikipedia, [«Slovenia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia), 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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Opposition to the regime was mostly limited to intellectual and literary circles and became especially vocal after Tito's death in 1980 when the economic and political situation in Yugoslavia became very strained.

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**Who acts:** economic situation, Tito · **What happens:** limit, become, strain, die · **To what, where:** Opposition, intellectual circles, 1980

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Slovenia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (economic situation, Tito), 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:Slovenia:142
# text = Opposition to the regime was mostly limited to intellectual and literary circles and became especially vocal after Tito's death in 1980 when the economic and political situation in Yugoslavia became very strained.
1	Opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	regime	regime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	limited	limit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	circles	circle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	vocal	vocal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	Tito	Tito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1980	1980	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Yugoslavia	Yugoslavia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
32	very	very	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	strained	strain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **limit** | past · passive |  | Opposition to the regime |  |  |  | to intellectual circles *goal*; mostly *property* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Patient to circle=Goal |
| 2 | **become** | past |  |  |  |  |  | in 1980 *result*; vocal *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1980=Result |
| 3 | **become** | past | the economic situation in Yugoslavia |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **strain** | participle | the economic situation in Yugoslavia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **die** |  | Tito |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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, «Slovenia», 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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