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title: At first, it was a military settlement, and gradually the city rose… — Budapest · tree and pragmatics
description: At first, it was a military settlement, and gradually the city rose around it, making it the focal point of the city's commercial life. Who acts: settlement, city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Budapest» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Budapest, sentence 49

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From Wikipedia, [«Budapest»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest), 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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At first, it was a military settlement, and gradually the city rose around it, making it the focal point of the city's commercial life.

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**Who acts:** settlement, city · **What happens:** be, rise, make, point · **To what, where:** military settlement, settlement, commercial life

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Budapest». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (settlement, 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:Budapest:49
# text = At first, it was a military settlement, and gradually the city rose around it, making it the focal point of the city's commercial life.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	around	around	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	focal	focal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | settlement | a military settlement |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | past | the city |  |  | settlement |  | gradually *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around it=Location |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | the city *not said here* | settlement |  |  |  | the focal point of the city's commercial life *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary point=Product |
| 4 | **point** |  |  | the city's commercial life |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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, «Budapest», 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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