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title: On local elections held on 25 May 2014, the Democratic Party of Soci… — Podgorica · tree and pragmatics
description: On local elections held on 25 May 2014, the Democratic Party of Socialists won 29 seats in the municipal assembly, one short of 30 needed to form a majority. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Podgorica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Podgorica, sentence 104

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From Wikipedia, [«Podgorica»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podgorica), 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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On local elections held on 25 May 2014, the Democratic Party of Socialists won 29 seats in the municipal assembly, one short of 30 needed to form a majority.

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**What happens:** hold, win, need, form · **To what, where:** local elections, 29 seats, majority

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Podgorica». 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:Podgorica:104
# text = On local elections held on 25 May 2014, the Democratic Party of Socialists won 29 seats in the municipal assembly, one short of 30 needed to form a majority.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
4	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Democratic	Democratic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Party	Party	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Socialists	Socialist	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	municipal	municipal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	_
27	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | participle |  | local elections *not said here* |  |  | may |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **win** | past |  | 29 seats |  | local elections |  | in the municipal assembly | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Eventuality |
| 3 | **need** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of 30 | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **form** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a majority |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location majority=Theme |

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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, «Podgorica», 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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