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title: King Stefan Dragutin (r. 1276–1282) received Belgrade from his fathe… — Belgrade · tree and pragmatics
description: King Stefan Dragutin (r. 1276–1282) received Belgrade from his father-in-law, Stephen V of Hungary, in 1284, and it served as the capital of the Kingdom of Syrmia, a vassal state to the Kingdom of Hungary. Who acts: King Stefan, city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgrade» with its dependency tree and
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# Belgrade, sentence 53

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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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King Stefan Dragutin (r. 1276–1282) received Belgrade from his father-in-law, Stephen V of Hungary, in 1284, and it served as the capital of the Kingdom of Syrmia, a vassal state to the Kingdom of Hungary.

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**Who acts:** King Stefan, city · **What happens:** receive, serve · **To what, where:** Belgrade, law

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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 (King Stefan, city), 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:53
# text = King Stefan Dragutin (r. 1276–1282) received Belgrade from his father-in-law, Stephen V of Hungary, in 1284, and it served as the capital of the Kingdom of Syrmia, a vassal state to the Kingdom of Hungary.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Stefan	Stefan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	Dragutin	Dragutin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	r.	r.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	nsubj	_	_
6	1276	1276	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	1282	1282	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
10	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Belgrade	Belgrade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Stephen	Stephen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	V	V	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Hungary	Hungary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	1284	1284	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Syrmia	Syrmia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	vassal	vassal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Hungary	Hungary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | King Stefan  1276 – 1282 | Belgrade |  | law  Stefan's father  Stephen V of Hungary |  | in 1284 | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent belgrade=Theme from law=Source |
| 2 | **serve** | past | city |  |  |  |  | as the capital of the Kingdom of Syrmia | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as capital=Attribute |

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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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