Belgrade, sentence 91
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.
During his first reign (1815–1839), Prince Miloš Obrenović pursued expansion of the city's population through the addition of new settlements, aiming and succeeding to make Belgrade the centre of the Principality's administrative, military and cultural institutions.
Who acts: Miloš · What happens: pursue, aim, succeed, make, expand · To what, where: expansion, addition, centre, Belgrade, population
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 (Miloš), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 reign | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 reign | nmod:poss |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 reign | amod |
| 4 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pursued | obl |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 1815 | punct |
| 6 | 1815 | 1815 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 reign | appos |
| 7 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 8 1839 | case |
| 8 | 1839 | 1839 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 1815 | nmod |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 1815 | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reign | punct |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Miloš | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Miloš | Miloš | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 pursued | nsubj |
| 13 | Obrenović | Obrenović | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Miloš | flat |
| 14 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | expansion | expansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pursued | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 population | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 population | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 city | case |
| 20 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 expansion | nmod |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 addition | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 addition | det |
| 23 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pursued | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 settlements | case |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 settlements | amod |
| 26 | settlements | settlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 addition | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 aiming | punct |
| 28 | aiming | aim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 pursued | advcl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 succeeding | cc |
| 30 | succeeding | succeed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 aiming | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 make | mark |
| 32 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 succeeding | xcomp |
| 33 | Belgrade | Belgrade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 make | obj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 centre | det |
| 35 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 make | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 institutions | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Principality | det |
| 38 | Principality | Principality | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 institutions | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 Principality | case |
| 40 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 institutions | amod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 military | punct |
| 42 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 administrative | conj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 cultural | cc |
| 44 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 administrative | conj |
| 45 | institutions | institution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 centre | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | Miloš Prince | expansion of the city's population | the addition of new settlements | during Mihailo's first reign | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent expansion=Theme through addition=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | aim | gerund | Miloš Prince not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | succeed | gerund | Miloš Prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | Miloš Prince not said here | the centre of the Principality's administrative institutions | Belgrade | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset belgrade=Beneficiary centre=Product | |||
| 5 | expand | the city's population | nom expansion «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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