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title: Belgrade was a candidate to host the 1992 and the 1996 Summer Olympi… — Belgrade · tree and pragmatics
description: Belgrade was a candidate to host the 1992 and the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. Who acts: Belgrade. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgrade» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belgrade, sentence 451

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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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Belgrade was a candidate to host the 1992 and the 1996 Summer Olympic Games.

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**Who acts:** Belgrade · **What happens:** be, host · **To what, where:** candidate, 1992

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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 (Belgrade), 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:451
# text = Belgrade was a candidate to host the 1992 and the 1996 Summer Olympic Games.
1	Belgrade	Belgrade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	candidate	candidate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	host	host	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	1992	1992	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	1996	1996	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	Olympic	Olympic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Games	Game	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Belgrade | a candidate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **host** | to-infinitive |  | the 1992 and the 1996 Summer Olympic Games |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1992=Beneficiary |

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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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