Belgrade, sentence 53
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.
King Stefan Dragutin (r. 1276–1282) received Belgrade from his father-in-law, Stephen V of Hungary, in 1284, and it served as the capital of the Kingdom of Syrmia, a vassal state to the Kingdom of Hungary.
Who acts: King Stefan, city · What happens: receive, serve · To what, where: Belgrade, law
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 (King Stefan, city), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Stefan | compound |
| 2 | Stefan | Stefan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 received | nsubj |
| 3 | Dragutin | Dragutin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Stefan | flat |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 1276 | punct |
| 5 | r. | r. | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 1276 | nsubj |
| 6 | 1276 | 1276 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Stefan | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 8 1282 | case |
| 8 | 1282 | 1282 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 1276 | nmod |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 1276 | punct |
| 10 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Belgrade | Belgrade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 received | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 law | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 law | nsubj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 law | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 law | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 in | punct |
| 18 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 received | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 V | punct |
| 20 | Stephen | Stephen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 V | compound |
| 21 | V | V | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 law | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Hungary | case |
| 23 | Hungary | Hungary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 V | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 1284 | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 1284 | case |
| 26 | 1284 | 1284 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 received | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 served | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 served | cc |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 served | nsubj |
| 30 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 received | conj |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 capital | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 capital | det |
| 33 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 served | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Kingdom | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Kingdom | det |
| 36 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 capital | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Syrmia | case |
| 38 | Syrmia | Syrmia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Kingdom | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 state | punct |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 state | det |
| 41 | vassal | vassal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 state | amod |
| 42 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Kingdom | appos |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 Kingdom | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Kingdom | det |
| 45 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 state | nmod |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Hungary | case |
| 47 | Hungary | Hungary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Kingdom | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | King Stefan 1276 – 1282 | Belgrade | law Stefan's father Stephen V of Hungary | in 1284 | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent belgrade=Theme from law=Source | ||
| 2 | serve | past | city | as the capital of the Kingdom of Syrmia | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as capital=Attribute |
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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