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title: However, Venetian rule of Podgorica did not last long, because Mehme… — Podgorica · tree and pragmatics
description: However, Venetian rule of Podgorica did not last long, because Mehmed II soon conquered the fortified town of Medun in 1455, and two years later, most of Zeta. Who acts: Venetian rule, Mehmed, Podgorica. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Podgorica» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Podgorica, sentence 32

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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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However, Venetian rule of Podgorica did not last long, because Mehmed II soon conquered the fortified town of Medun in 1455, and two years later, most of Zeta.

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**Who acts:** Venetian rule, Mehmed, Podgorica · **What happens:** not last, conquer, fortify, rule · **To what, where:** fortified town, 1455

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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 (Venetian rule, Mehmed, Podgorica), 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:32
# text = However, Venetian rule of Podgorica did not last long, because Mehmed II soon conquered the fortified town of Medun in 1455, and two years later, most of Zeta.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Venetian	venetian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Podgorica	Podgorica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	Mehmed	Mehmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	fortified	fortify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Medun	Medun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1455	1455	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Zeta	Zeta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **last** | past · do-support | Venetian rule of Podgorica |  |  |  |  | however, long *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **conquer** | past | Mehmed | the fortified town of Medun |  | 1455 |  | late, soon *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient |
| 3 | **fortify** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **rule** |  | Podgorica |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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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