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title: Opened on New Year's Day in 1885, it was the testing line for the tr… — Sarajevo · tree and pragmatics
description: Opened on New Year's Day in 1885, it was the testing line for the tram in Vienna and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and operated by horses. Who acts: line. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sarajevo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sarajevo, sentence 264

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From Wikipedia, [«Sarajevo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarajevo), 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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Opened on New Year's Day in 1885, it was the testing line for the tram in Vienna and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and operated by horses.

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**Who acts:** line · **What happens:** open, be, operate · **To what, where:** 1885, testing line

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sarajevo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (line), 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:Sarajevo:264
# text = Opened on New Year's Day in 1885, it was the testing line for the tram in Vienna and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and operated by horses.
1	Opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1885	1885	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	testing	testing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tram	tram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Vienna	Vienna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	Austro	Austro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Hungarian	Hungarian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	operated	operate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | participle |  |  |  | 1885 | on New Year's Day |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on day=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | line | the testing line |  |  |  | for the tram in Vienna and the Austro Hungarian Empire | tree rules |
| 3 | **operate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by horses | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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, «Sarajevo», 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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