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title: For self-governance purposes, the city is divided into 17 boroughs,… — Bratislava · tree and pragmatics
description: For self-governance purposes, the city is divided into 17 boroughs, each of which has its own mayor (starosta) and council. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bratislava» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bratislava, sentence 233

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From Wikipedia, [«Bratislava»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratislava), 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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For self-governance purposes, the city is divided into 17 boroughs, each of which has its own mayor (starosta) and council.

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**What happens:** divide, have · **To what, where:** city, 17 boroughs, own mayor

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bratislava». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Bratislava:233
# text = For self-governance purposes, the city is divided into 17 boroughs, each of which has its own mayor (starosta) and council.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	governance	governance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	purposes	purpose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	boroughs	borough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	appos	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	starosta	starosta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | present · passive |  | the city |  | 17 boroughs |  | for governance purposes | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | district's own mayor and council |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mayor=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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