Belgrade, sentence 263
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.
Many people came to the city as economic migrants from smaller towns and the countryside, while tens of thousands arrived as refugees from Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, as a result of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.
Who acts: Many people, tens, 1990s · What happens: come, arrive, result, war · To what, where: city, Yugoslav wars
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 (Many people, tens, 1990s), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 migrants | case |
| 8 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 migrants | amod |
| 9 | migrants | migrant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 towns | case |
| 11 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 towns | amod |
| 12 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 migrants | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 countryside | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 countryside | det |
| 15 | countryside | countryside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 towns | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 arrived | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 arrived | mark |
| 18 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 arrived | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 thousands | case |
| 20 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tens | nmod |
| 21 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 refugees | case |
| 23 | refugees | refugee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 arrived | obl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Croatia | case |
| 25 | Croatia | Croatia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 refugees | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Bosnia | punct |
| 27 | Bosnia | Bosnia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Croatia | conj |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Herzegovina | punct |
| 29 | Herzegovina | Herzegovina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Bosnia | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Kosovo | cc |
| 31 | Kosovo | Kosovo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Croatia | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 result | punct |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 result | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 result | det |
| 35 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arrived | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 wars | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 wars | det |
| 38 | Yugoslav | Yugoslav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 wars | compound |
| 39 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 result | nmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 1990s | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 1990s | det |
| 42 | 1990s | 1990s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 39 wars | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Many people | the city | as economic migrants from smaller towns and the countryside | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | arrive | past | tens of thousands | as refugees from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo; a result of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s conj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | result | the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | war | the 1990s | nom war «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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