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title: As Podgorica was incorporated into Montenegro, its development shift… — Podgorica · tree and pragmatics
description: As Podgorica was incorporated into Montenegro, its development shifted to the right bank of Ribnica, below the eponymous Gorica hill, where Nova Varoš (New Town) sprung up. Who acts: post. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Podgorica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Podgorica, sentence 261

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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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As Podgorica was incorporated into Montenegro, its development shifted to the right bank of Ribnica, below the eponymous Gorica hill, where Nova Varoš (New Town) sprung up.

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**Who acts:** post · **What happens:** incorporate, shift, spring up, develop · **To what, where:** Montenegro, development, Nova Varoš

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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: who acts (post), 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:261
# text = As Podgorica was incorporated into Montenegro, its development shifted to the right bank of Ribnica, below the eponymous Gorica hill, where Nova Varoš (New Town) sprung up.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Podgorica	Podgorica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	incorporated	incorporate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Montenegro	Montenegro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	shifted	shift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Ribnica	Ribnica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	below	below	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	eponymous	eponymous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	Gorica	Gorica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
25	Nova	Nova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Varoš	Varoš	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
31	sprung	spring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **incorporate** | past · passive |  |  |  | Montenegro |  | as Podgorica; below the eponymous Gorica hill | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |
| 2 | **shift** | participle |  | post's development *not said here* |  |  |  | to the right bank of Ribnica *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to bank=Result |
| 3 | **spring up** | participle · passive |  | Nova Varoš |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **develop** |  | post |  |  |  |  |  | nom development «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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