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title: By the 15th century the settlement was established as a city, named… — Sarajevo · tree and pragmatics
description: By the 15th century the settlement was established as a city, named Bosna-Saraj, around the citadel in 1461. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sarajevo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sarajevo, sentence 90

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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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By the 15th century the settlement was established as a city, named Bosna-Saraj, around the citadel in 1461.

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**What happens:** establish, name · **To what, where:** settlement, citadel, city

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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: 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:90
# text = By the 15th century the settlement was established as a city, named Bosna-Saraj, around the citadel in 1461.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	15th	15th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	Bosna	Bosna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Saraj	Saraj	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	around	around	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	citadel	citadel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1461	1461	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | past · passive |  | the settlement |  | the citadel in 1461 | century | as a city | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a city *not said here* |  |  |  | Bosna *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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, «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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