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title: Contrasting the Ottoman layout of Old Town, the new settlement was b… — Podgorica · tree and pragmatics
description: Contrasting the Ottoman layout of Old Town, the new settlement was built according to European urban practices - wide streets of New Town were laid out in an orthogonal grid, along with a spacious city square in its center. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Podgorica» with its dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Podgorica, sentence 262

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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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Contrasting the Ottoman layout of Old Town, the new settlement was built according to European urban practices - wide streets of New Town were laid out in an orthogonal grid, along with a spacious city square in its center.

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**What happens:** contrast, build, accord, lay out · **To what, where:** Ottoman layout, wide streets, orthogonal grid

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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:262
# text = Contrasting the Ottoman layout of Old Town, the new settlement was built according to European urban practices - wide streets of New Town were laid out in an orthogonal grid, along with a spacious city square in its center.
1	Contrasting	contrast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	layout	layout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	case	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	practices	practice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	orthogonal	orthogonal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	grid	grid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	along	along	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	spacious	spacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contrast** | gerund |  | the Ottoman layout of Old Town |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layout=Patient |
| 2 | **build** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | accord European urban practices; the new settlement *nsubj:pass*; a spacious city square in grid's center *conj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lay out** | past · passive |  | wide streets of New Town |  | a orthogonal grid |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grid=Destination |

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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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