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title: Many people came to the city as economic migrants from smaller towns… — Belgrade · tree and pragmatics
description: Many people came to the city as economic migrants from smaller towns and the countryside, while tens of thousands arrived as refugees from Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, as a result of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Who acts: Many people, tens, 1990s. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgrade» w
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# Belgrade, sentence 263

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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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Many people came to the city as economic migrants from smaller towns and the countryside, while tens of thousands arrived as refugees from Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, as a result of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.

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**Who acts:** Many people, tens, 1990s · **What happens:** come, arrive, result, war · **To what, where:** city, Yugoslav wars

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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 (Many people, tens, 1990s), 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:263
# text = Many people came to the city as economic migrants from smaller towns and the countryside, while tens of thousands arrived as refugees from Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, as a result of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	migrants	migrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	countryside	countryside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	refugees	refugee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Croatia	Croatia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Bosnia	Bosnia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Herzegovina	Herzegovina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Kosovo	Kosovo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Yugoslav	Yugoslav	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Many people |  |  | the city |  | as economic migrants from smaller towns and the countryside | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | tens of thousands |  |  |  |  | as refugees from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo; a result of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s *conj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **result** |  |  | the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **war** |  | the 1990s |  |  |  |  |  | nom war «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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