Belgium, sentence 156
From Wikipedia, «Belgium», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
After Herman Van Rompuy was designated the first permanent President of the European Council on 19 November 2009, he offered the resignation of his government to King Albert II on 25 November 2009.
Who acts: Herman · What happens: designate, offer, resign · To what, where: Herman, 19, resignation, King, 25, government
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Belgium». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Herman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 designated | mark |
| 2 | Herman | Herman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 designated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Van | Van | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Herman | flat |
| 4 | Rompuy | Rompuy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Herman | flat |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 designated | aux:pass |
| 6 | designated | designate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 offered | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 President | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 President | amod |
| 9 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 President | amod |
| 10 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 designated | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Council | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Council | det |
| 13 | European | European | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Council | compound |
| 14 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 President | nmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 19 | case |
| 16 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 designated | obl |
| 17 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 19 | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 19 | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 designated | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 offered | nsubj |
| 21 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 resignation | det |
| 23 | resignation | resignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 offered | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 government | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 government | nmod:poss |
| 26 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 resignation | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 King | case |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 offered | obl |
| 29 | Albert | Albert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 King | flat |
| 30 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 28 King | flat |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 25 | case |
| 32 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 offered | obl |
| 33 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 25 | nmod:unmarked |
| 34 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 25 | nmod:unmarked |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | designate | past · passive | Herman | 19 November | the first permanent President of the European Council obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme president=Attribute | |||
| 2 | offer | past | Herman | the resignation of resignation's government | King | 25 November 2009 | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent resignation=Theme to king=Goal | ||
| 3 | resign | resignation's government | nom resignation «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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