--- title: During his first reign (1815–1839), Prince Miloš Obrenović pursued e… — Belgrade · tree and pragmatics description: During his first reign (1815–1839), Prince Miloš Obrenović pursued expansion of the city's population through the addition of new settlements, aiming and succeeding to make Belgrade the centre of the Principality's administrative, military and cultural institutions. Who acts: Miloš. 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During his first reign (1815–1839), Prince Miloš Obrenović pursued expansion of the city's population through the addition of new settlements, aiming and succeeding to make Belgrade the centre of the Principality's administrative, military and cultural institutions. **Who acts:** Miloš · **What happens:** pursue, aim, succeed, make, expand · **To what, where:** expansion, addition, centre, Belgrade, population 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 (Miloš), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:91 # text = During his first reign (1815–1839), Prince Miloš Obrenović pursued expansion of the city's population through the addition of new settlements, aiming and succeeding to make Belgrade the centre of the Principality's administrative, military and cultural institutions. 1 During during ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 amod _ _ 4 reign reign NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 1815 1815 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 7 – – SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 8 case _ SpaceAfter=No 8 1839 1839 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 11 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:desc _ _ 12 Miloš Miloš PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 Obrenović Obrenović PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 14 pursued pursue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 expansion expansion NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 21 through through ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 addition addition NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 settlements settlement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 aiming aim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 succeeding succeed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 Belgrade Belgrade PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Principality Principality PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 administrative administrative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 military military ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 conj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 cultural cultural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 conj _ _ 45 institutions institution NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pursue** | past | Miloš Prince | expansion of the city's population | | the addition of new settlements | during Mihailo's first reign | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent expansion=Theme through addition=Trajectory | | 2 | **aim** | gerund | Miloš Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **succeed** | gerund | Miloš Prince *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | Miloš Prince *not said here* | the centre of the Principality's administrative institutions | Belgrade | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset belgrade=Beneficiary centre=Product | | 5 | **expand** | | | the city's population | | | | | nom expansion «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belgrade/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belgrade/92/) - ↑ back to [Belgrade](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belgrade/)