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title: In addition to Belgrade Waterfront, the city is under rapid developm… — Belgrade · tree and pragmatics
description: In addition to Belgrade Waterfront, the city is under rapid development and reconstruction, especially in the area of Novi Beograd, where (as of 2020) apartment and office buildings were under construction to support the burgeoning Belgrade IT sector, now one of Serbia's largest economic players. Wh
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# Belgrade, sentence 196

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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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In addition to Belgrade Waterfront, the city is under rapid development and reconstruction, especially in the area of Novi Beograd, where (as of 2020) apartment and office buildings were under construction to support the burgeoning Belgrade IT sector, now one of Serbia's largest economic players.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** be, support, burgeon · **To what, where:** rapid development, construction, burgeoning Belgrade sector

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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 (city), 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:196
# text = In addition to Belgrade Waterfront, the city is under rapid development and reconstruction, especially in the area of Novi Beograd, where (as of 2020) apartment and office buildings were under construction to support the burgeoning Belgrade IT sector, now one of Serbia's largest economic players.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Belgrade	Belgrade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Waterfront	Waterfront	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	reconstruction	reconstruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Novi	Novi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	Beograd	Beograd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
30	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:unmarked	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	under	under	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
40	burgeoning	burgeon	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	amod	_	_
41	Belgrade	Belgrade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
42	IT	it	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	flat	_	_
43	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	46	advmod	_	_
46	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	appos	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
48	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	's	's	PART	POS	_	48	case	_	_
50	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	52	amod	_	_
51	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the city |  |  | rapid development and reconstruction and the area of Novi |  | in addition to Belgrade; reconstruction *conj*; the area of Novi *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the city *not said here* |  |  | construction |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **support** | to-infinitive | the city *not said here* | the burgeoning Belgrade sector |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sector=Stimulus |
| 4 | **burgeon** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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