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title: Situated at the confluence of two major rivers, the Danube and the S… — Belgrade · tree and pragmatics
description: Situated at the confluence of two major rivers, the Danube and the Sava, Belgrade has 11 bridges, the most important of which are Branko's Bridge, Gazela Bridge, Ada Bridge and Pupin Bridge, the first two of which connect the core of the city to New Belgrade. Who acts: Belgrade, 11 bridges. A senten
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# Belgrade, sentence 478

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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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Situated at the confluence of two major rivers, the Danube and the Sava, Belgrade has 11 bridges, the most important of which are Branko's Bridge, Gazela Bridge, Ada Bridge and Pupin Bridge, the first two of which connect the core of the city to New Belgrade.

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**Who acts:** Belgrade, 11 bridges · **What happens:** situate, have, be, connect · **To what, where:** confluence, Bridge, core

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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, 11 bridges), 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:478
# text = Situated at the confluence of two major rivers, the Danube and the Sava, Belgrade has 11 bridges, the most important of which are Branko's Bridge, Gazela Bridge, Ada Bridge and Pupin Bridge, the first two of which connect the core of the city to New Belgrade.
1	Situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	confluence	confluence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Danube	Danube	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Sava	Sava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Belgrade	Belgrade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
18	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	bridges	bridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nmod	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	Branko	Branko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	Gazela	Gazela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	Ada	Ada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	Pupin	Pupin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
38	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	42	amod	_	_
42	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
45	connect	connect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	core	core	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	Belgrade	Belgrade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **situate** | participle |  |  |  | the confluence of two major rivers |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at confluence=Destination |
| 2 | **have** | present | Belgrade |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | 11 bridges | Branko's Bridge and Gazela Bridge and Ada Bridge and Pupin |  |  |  | Branko *nmod:poss*; Gazela Bridge *conj*; Ada Bridge *conj*; Pupin *conj*; the first two *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **connect** | present |  | the core of the city to New Belgrade |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent core=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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