---
title: The avenues were supposed to alleviate the traffic problem, but most… — Zagreb · tree and pragmatics
description: The avenues were supposed to alleviate the traffic problem, but most of them are nowadays gridlocked during rush hour and others, like Branimirova Avenue and Dubrovnik Avenue which are gridlocked for the whole day. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zagreb» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Zagreb/471/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Zagreb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Zagreb/) / 471

# Zagreb, sentence 471

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The avenues were supposed to alleviate the traffic problem, but most of them are nowadays gridlocked during rush hour and others, like Branimirova Avenue and Dubrovnik Avenue which are gridlocked for the whole day.

<!-- .vintro -->
**What happens:** suppose, alleviate, gridlock · **To what, where:** avenues, traffic problem, most, Branimirova Avenue

<!-- .vabout -->
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:471
# text = The avenues were supposed to alleviate the traffic problem, but most of them are nowadays gridlocked during rush hour and others, like Branimirova Avenue and Dubrovnik Avenue which are gridlocked for the whole day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	avenues	avenue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	alleviate	alleviate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	gridlocked	gridlock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
18	during	during	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Branimirova	Branimirova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Avenue	Avenue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Dubrovnik	Dubrovnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	Avenue	Avenue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	gridlocked	gridlock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | past · passive |  | the avenues |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **alleviate** | to-infinitive |  | the traffic problem |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent problem=Patient |
| 3 | **gridlock** | present · passive |  | most of problems |  |  | hour | like Branimirova Avenue and Dubrovnik; nowadays *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **gridlock** | present · passive |  | Branimirova Avenue and Dubrovnik |  |  | day |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 470](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Zagreb/470/)
- next →: [sentence 472](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Zagreb/472/)
- ↑ back to [Zagreb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Zagreb/)