Zagreb, sentence 24
From Wikipedia, «Zagreb», 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.
Some linguists (e.g. Nada Klaić, Miroslav Kravar) propose a metathesis of *Zabreg, which would originate from Old Slavic breg (see Proto-Slavic) in the sense of "riverbank", referring to River Sava.
Who acts: linguists, metathesis · What happens: propose, originate, see, refer, sense · To what, where: metathesis, Old Slavic breg, Proto, sense, River, riverbank
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Zagreb». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (linguists, metathesis), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 linguists | det |
| 2 | linguists | linguist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 propose | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 Klaić | punct |
| 4 | e.g. | e.g. | ADV | _ | 6 Klaić | advmod |
| 5 | Nada | Nada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Klaić | compound |
| 6 | Klaić | Klaić | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 linguists | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Miroslav | punct |
| 8 | Miroslav | Miroslav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Klaić | conj |
| 9 | Kravar | Kravar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Miroslav | flat |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 Klaić | punct |
| 11 | propose | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 metathesis | det |
| 13 | metathesis | metathesis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 propose | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Zabreg | case |
| 15 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 14 of | punct |
| 16 | Zabreg | Zabreg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 metathesis | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 originate | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 originate | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 originate | aux |
| 20 | originate | originate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 metathesis | parataxis |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 breg | case |
| 22 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 breg | amod |
| 23 | Slavic | slavic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 breg | amod |
| 24 | breg | breg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 originate | obl |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 originate | conj |
| 27 | Proto | Proto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 see | obj |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Proto | punct |
| 29 | Slavic | slavic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Proto | list |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 Proto | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 sense | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sense | det |
| 33 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 see | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 riverbank | case |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 riverbank | punct |
| 36 | riverbank | riverbank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sense | nmod |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 riverbank | punct |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 referring | punct |
| 39 | referring | refer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 see | advcl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 River | case |
| 41 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 referring | obl |
| 42 | Sava | Sava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 River | flat |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 propose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | present | some linguists Nada Klaić and Miroslav | a metathesis of Zabreg | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metathesis=Theme | ||||
| 2 | originate | would | a metathesis of Zabreg | Old Slavic breg | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | a metathesis of Zabreg not said here | Proto | the sense of riverbank | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer proto=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | refer | gerund | a metathesis of Zabreg not said here | River | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to river=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | sense | riverbank | nom sense «cognition 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Zagreb», 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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