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title: Across the Sava from Singidunum was the Celtic city of Taurunum (Zem… — Belgrade · tree and pragmatics
description: Across the Sava from Singidunum was the Celtic city of Taurunum (Zemun); the two were connected with a bridge throughout Roman and Byzantine times. Who acts: Sava. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgrade» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belgrade, sentence 40

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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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Across the Sava from Singidunum was the Celtic city of Taurunum (Zemun); the two were connected with a bridge throughout Roman and Byzantine times.

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**Who acts:** Sava · **What happens:** be, connect · **To what, where:** Celtic city, two

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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 (Sava), 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:40
# text = Across the Sava from Singidunum was the Celtic city of Taurunum (Zemun); the two were connected with a bridge throughout Roman and Byzantine times.
1	Across	across	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Sava	Sava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Singidunum	Singidunum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Taurunum	Taurunum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Zemun	Zemun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Byzantine	byzantine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Sava from Singidunum | the Celtic city |  |  |  | of Taurunum | tree rules |
| 2 | **connect** | past · passive |  | the two |  |  | time | with a bridge | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with bridge=Co-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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