Belgrade, sentence 236
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.
Previously, they were classified into 10 urban (lying completely or partially within borders of the city proper) and 7 suburban municipalities, whose centres are smaller towns.
Who acts: centres · What happens: classify, lie, be · To what, where: municipalities, 10 urban, smaller towns
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 (centres), 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 | Previously | previously | ADV | _ | 5 classified | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Previously | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 classified | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 classified | aux:pass |
| 5 | classified | classify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 urban | case |
| 7 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 urban | nummod |
| 8 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 classified | obl |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 lying | punct |
| 10 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 classified | advcl |
| 11 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 10 lying | advmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 partially | cc |
| 13 | partially | partially | ADV | _ | 11 completely | conj |
| 14 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 borders | case |
| 15 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lying | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 city | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 borders | nmod |
| 19 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 10 lying | advmod |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 lying | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 municipalities | cc |
| 22 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 municipalities | nummod |
| 23 | suburban | suburban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 municipalities | compound |
| 24 | municipalities | municipality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lying | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 towns | punct |
| 26 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 27 centres | nmod:poss |
| 27 | centres | centre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 towns | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 towns | cop |
| 29 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 towns | amod |
| 30 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 municipalities | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 classified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | classify | past · passive | municipalities = municipality | into 10 urban goal; previously property | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme into urban=Goal | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | within borders of the city; 7 suburban municipalities and smaller towns conj; completely, properly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | smaller towns's centres | smaller towns | tree rules |
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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