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title: The busiest roads are the main east–west arteries, former Highway "B… — Zagreb · tree and pragmatics
description: The busiest roads are the main east–west arteries, former Highway "Brotherhood and Unity", consisting of Ljubljana Avenue, Zagreb Avenue and Slavonia Avenue; and the Vukovar Avenue, the closest bypass of the city centre. Who acts: busiest roads, main west arteries. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zagreb»
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# Zagreb, sentence 470

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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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The busiest roads are the main east–west arteries, former Highway "Brotherhood and Unity", consisting of Ljubljana Avenue, Zagreb Avenue and Slavonia Avenue; and the Vukovar Avenue, the closest bypass of the city centre.

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**Who acts:** busiest roads, main west arteries · **What happens:** be, consist · **To what, where:** main west arteries

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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 (busiest roads, main west arteries), 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:470
# text = The busiest roads are the main east–west arteries, former Highway "Brotherhood and Unity", consisting of Ljubljana Avenue, Zagreb Avenue and Slavonia Avenue; and the Vukovar Avenue, the closest bypass of the city centre.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	busiest	busy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	–	–	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	arteries	artery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Highway	Highway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Brotherhood	Brotherhood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Unity	Unity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	consisting	consist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Ljubljana	Ljubljana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	Avenue	Avenue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Zagreb	Zagreb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	Avenue	Avenue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Slavonia	Slavonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
29	Avenue	Avenue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Vukovar	Vukovar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Avenue	Avenue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	closest	close	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	amod	_	_
38	bypass	bypass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 busiest roads | the main west arteries and former Highway and the Vukovar Avenue |  |  |  | former Highway *conj*; the Vukovar Avenue *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **consist** | gerund | the main west arteries and former Highway and the Vukovar Avenue *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Ljubljana and Zagreb and Slavonia | tree rules |

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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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