Belgrade, sentence 157
From Wikipedia, «Belgrade», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
As a result, Western visitors to Belgrade in the late 1960s were astonished to see that the main streets were dominated by gigantic and garish billboards promoting Western brands such as Coca-Cola, Volkswagen, Siemens and Pan Am, giving Belgrade a very Western feel.
Who acts: Western visitors, gigantic billboards · What happens: be, see, dominate, promote, give · To what, where: main streets, Western brands, Western feel, Belgrade · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Belgrade». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Western visitors, gigantic billboards), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 result | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 result | det |
| 3 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 astonished | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 result | punct |
| 5 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 visitors | amod |
| 6 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 astonished | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Belgrade | case |
| 8 | Belgrade | Belgrade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 visitors | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1960s | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 1960s | det |
| 11 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 1960s | amod |
| 12 | 1960s | 1960s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 6 visitors | nmod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 astonished | cop |
| 14 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 astonished | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 dominated | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 streets | det |
| 19 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 streets | amod |
| 20 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 dominated | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 dominated | aux:pass |
| 22 | dominated | dominate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 see | ccomp |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 billboards | case |
| 24 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 billboards | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 garish | cc |
| 26 | garish | garish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gigantic | conj |
| 27 | billboards | billboard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 dominated | obl:agent |
| 28 | promoting | promote | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 billboards | acl |
| 29 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 brands | amod |
| 30 | brands | brand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 promoting | obj |
| 31 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 33 Coca | case |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 such | fixed |
| 33 | Coca | Coca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 brands | nmod |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Cola | punct |
| 35 | Cola | Cola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Coca | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Volkswagen | punct |
| 37 | Volkswagen | Volkswagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Coca | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Siemens | punct |
| 39 | Siemens | Siemens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Coca | conj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 Pan | cc |
| 41 | Pan | Pan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Coca | conj |
| 42 | Am | Am | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Pan | flat |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 giving | punct |
| 44 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 promoting | conj |
| 45 | Belgrade | Belgrade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 giving | iobj |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 feel | det |
| 47 | very | very | ADV | _ | 48 Western | advmod |
| 48 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 feel | amod |
| 49 | feel | feel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 giving | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Western visitors to Belgrade in the late 1960s | as a result; astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Western visitors to Belgrade in the late 1960s not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | dominate | past · passive | gigantic billboards | the main streets | vn contiguous_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | promote | gerund | gigantic billboards not said here | Western brands | such Coca and Cola and Volkswagen and Siemens and Pan | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brand=Theme | |||
| 5 | give | gerund | gigantic billboards not said here | a Western feel | Belgrade | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent belgrade=Recipient feel=Theme |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Belgrade», 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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