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title: According to another explanation, related to the second, the dragon… — Ljubljana · tree and pragmatics
description: According to another explanation, related to the second, the dragon was at first only a decoration above the city coat of arms. Who acts: dragon. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ljubljana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ljubljana, sentence 33

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From Wikipedia, [«Ljubljana»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana), 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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According to another explanation, related to the second, the dragon was at first only a decoration above the city coat of arms.

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**Who acts:** dragon · **What happens:** accord, be · **To what, where:** decoration, city coat

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ljubljana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon), 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:Ljubljana:33
# text = According to another explanation, related to the second, the dragon was at first only a decoration above the city coat of arms.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	obl	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	decoration	decoration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
19	above	above	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the dragon | a decoration |  | the city coat of arms |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «Ljubljana», 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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