Podgorica, sentence 262
From Wikipedia, «Podgorica», 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.
Contrasting the Ottoman layout of Old Town, the new settlement was built according to European urban practices - wide streets of New Town were laid out in an orthogonal grid, along with a spacious city square in its center.
What happens: contrast, build, accord, lay out · To what, where: Ottoman layout, wide streets, orthogonal grid
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Podgorica». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Contrasting | contrast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 built | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 layout | det |
| 3 | Ottoman | ottoman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 layout | amod |
| 4 | layout | layout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Contrasting | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Town | case |
| 6 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Town | amod |
| 7 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 layout | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Contrasting | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 settlement | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 settlement | amod |
| 11 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 built | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 built | aux:pass |
| 13 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 practices | case |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 according | fixed |
| 16 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 practices | amod |
| 17 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 practices | amod |
| 18 | practices | practice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 built | obl |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 streets | punct |
| 20 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 streets | amod |
| 21 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 laid | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Town | case |
| 23 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Town | compound |
| 24 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 streets | nmod |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 laid | aux:pass |
| 26 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 practices | acl:relcl |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 laid | compound:prt |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 grid | case |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 grid | det |
| 30 | orthogonal | orthogonal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 grid | amod |
| 31 | grid | grid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 laid | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 square | punct |
| 33 | along | along | ADP | _ | 38 square | case |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 square | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 square | det |
| 36 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 square | amod |
| 37 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 square | compound |
| 38 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 built | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 center | case |
| 40 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 center | nmod:poss |
| 41 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 square | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contrast | gerund | the Ottoman layout of Old Town | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layout=Patient | |||||
| 2 | build | past · passive | accord European urban practices; the new settlement nsubj:pass; a spacious city square in grid's center conj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | lay out | past · passive | wide streets of New Town | a orthogonal grid | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grid=Destination |
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, «Podgorica», 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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