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title: Previously, they were classified into 10 urban (lying completely or… — Belgrade · tree and pragmatics
description: Previously, they were classified into 10 urban (lying completely or partially within borders of the city proper) and 7 suburban municipalities, whose centres are smaller towns. Who acts: centres. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgrade» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belgrade, sentence 236

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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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Previously, they were classified into 10 urban (lying completely or partially within borders of the city proper) and 7 suburban municipalities, whose centres are smaller towns.

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**Who acts:** centres · **What happens:** classify, lie, be · **To what, where:** municipalities, 10 urban, smaller towns

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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 (centres), 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:236
# text = Previously, they were classified into 10 urban (lying completely or partially within borders of the city proper) and 7 suburban municipalities, whose centres are smaller towns.
1	Previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	classified	classify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	partially	partially	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	_
14	within	within	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	suburban	suburban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	municipalities	municipality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	centres	centre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **classify** | past · passive |  | municipalities *= municipality* |  |  |  | into 10 urban *goal*; previously *property* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme into urban=Goal |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | within borders of the city; 7 suburban municipalities and smaller towns *conj*; completely, properly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | smaller towns's centres | smaller towns |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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