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title: Today the latter is Zagreb's Upper Town (Gornji grad) and is one of… — Zagreb · tree and pragmatics
description: Today the latter is Zagreb's Upper Town (Gornji grad) and is one of the best-preserved urban nuclei in Croatia. Who acts: latter, Upper Town. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zagreb» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Zagreb, sentence 40

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From Wikipedia, [«Zagreb»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagreb), 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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Today the latter is Zagreb's Upper Town (Gornji grad) and is one of the best-preserved urban nuclei in Croatia.

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**Who acts:** latter, Upper Town · **What happens:** be, preserve · **To what, where:** Upper Town, one

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Zagreb». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (latter, Upper Town), 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:Zagreb:40
# text = Today the latter is Zagreb's Upper Town (Gornji grad) and is one of the best-preserved urban nuclei in Croatia.
1	Today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	Zagreb	Zagreb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	Upper	Upper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Gornji	Gornji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	grad	grad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
18	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
21	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	nuclei	nucleus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Croatia	Croatia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the latter | Zagreb's Upper Town |  |  | today | Zagreb *nmod:poss*; Gornji grad *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Zagreb's Upper Town | one |  |  |  | of the preserved urban nuclei in Croatia | tree rules |
| 3 | **preserve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: 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, «Zagreb», 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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