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title: In 19th-century Tbilisi, the Georgian quarter was confined to the so… — Tbilisi · tree and pragmatics
description: In 19th-century Tbilisi, the Georgian quarter was confined to the southeastern part of the city; Baedeker describes the layout succinctly: Who acts: Baedeker. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Tbilisi» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Tbilisi, sentence 141

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From Wikipedia, [«Tbilisi»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tbilisi), 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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In 19th-century Tbilisi, the Georgian quarter was confined to the southeastern part of the city; Baedeker describes the layout succinctly:

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**Who acts:** Baedeker · **What happens:** confine, describe · **To what, where:** Georgian quarter, Tbilisi, layout

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tbilisi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baedeker), 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:Tbilisi:141
# text = In 19th-century Tbilisi, the Georgian quarter was confined to the southeastern part of the city; Baedeker describes the layout succinctly:
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Tbilisi	Tbilisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Georgian	georgian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	southeastern	southeastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Baedeker	Baedeker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	layout	layout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	succinctly	succinctly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confine** | past · passive |  | the Georgian quarter |  | Tbilisi  19th century |  | to the southeastern part of the city | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in tbilisi=Destination |
| 2 | **describe** | present | Baedeker | the layout |  |  |  | succinctly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent layout=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, «Tbilisi», 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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