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title: During the summer and autumn of 1941, in reprisal for guerrilla atta… — Belgrade · tree and pragmatics
description: During the summer and autumn of 1941, in reprisal for guerrilla attacks, the Germans carried out several massacres of Belgrade citizens; in particular, members of the Jewish community were subject to mass shootings at the order of General Franz Böhme, the German Military Governor of Serbia. Who acts
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# Belgrade, sentence 139

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From Wikipedia, [«Belgrade»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgrade), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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During the summer and autumn of 1941, in reprisal for guerrilla attacks, the Germans carried out several massacres of Belgrade citizens; in particular, members of the Jewish community were subject to mass shootings at the order of General Franz Böhme, the German Military Governor of Serbia.

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**Who acts:** Germans, members · **What happens:** carry out, be, massacre, order · **To what, where:** several massacres, Belgrade citizens, Franz

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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 (Germans, members), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Belgrade:139
# text = During the summer and autumn of 1941, in reprisal for guerrilla attacks, the Germans carried out several massacres of Belgrade citizens; in particular, members of the Jewish community were subject to mass shootings at the order of General Franz Böhme, the German Military Governor of Serbia.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1941	1941	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	reprisal	reprisal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	guerrilla	guerrilla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Germans	German	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	massacres	massacre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Belgrade	Belgrade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	subject	subject	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	mass	mass	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	shootings	shooting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod:desc	_	_
43	Franz	Franz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	Böhme	Böhme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
48	Military	Military	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	Governor	Governor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry out** | past | the Germans | several massacres of Belgrade citizens |  |  | summer |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent massacre=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | members of the Jewish community |  |  |  |  | to mass shootings at the order of Franz  General and the German Military Governor of Serbia; subject *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **massacre** |  |  | Belgrade citizens |  |  |  |  | nom massacre «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **order** |  |  | Franz  General and the German Military Governor of Serbia |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**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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