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title: Just like Rotterdam, which was devastated twice by both German and A… — Belgrade · tree and pragmatics
description: Just like Rotterdam, which was devastated twice by both German and Allied bombing, Belgrade was bombed once more during World War II, this time by the Allies on 16 April 1944, killing at least 1,100 people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgrade» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belgrade, sentence 143

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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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Just like Rotterdam, which was devastated twice by both German and Allied bombing, Belgrade was bombed once more during World War II, this time by the Allies on 16 April 1944, killing at least 1,100 people.

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**What happens:** devastate, ally, bomb, kill · **To what, where:** Belgrade, 1,100 people

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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: 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:143
# text = Just like Rotterdam, which was devastated twice by both German and Allied bombing, Belgrade was bombed once more during World War II, this time by the Allies on 16 April 1944, killing at least 1,100 people.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Rotterdam	Rotterdam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	devastated	devastate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc:preconj	_	_
11	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Allied	ally	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	bombing	bombing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	Belgrade	Belgrade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	bombed	bomb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
21	during	during	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Allies	Ally	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nmod	_	_
33	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:unmarked	_	_
34	1944	1944	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	nmod	_	_
39	1,100	1,100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **devastate** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | like Rotterdam; by German and Allied bombing; which *nsubj:pass*; twice *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **ally** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bomb** | past · passive |  | Belgrade |  |  | during World War |  | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **kill** | gerund |  | 1,100 people |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |

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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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