Belgium, sentence 2
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.
Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west.
Who acts: Netherlands · What happens: situate, know, border · To what, where: Situated coastal lowland region, country
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 (Netherlands), 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 | Situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 region | amod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 region | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 region | det |
| 4 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 region | amod |
| 5 | lowland | lowland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 region | compound |
| 6 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 region | acl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 Countries | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Countries | det |
| 10 | Low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Countries | amod |
| 11 | Countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 known | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bordered | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bordered | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 bordered | aux:pass |
| 15 | bordered | border | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 region | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Netherlands | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Netherlands | det |
| 18 | Netherlands | Netherlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bordered | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 north | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 north | det |
| 21 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bordered | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Germany | punct |
| 23 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bordered | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 east | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 east | det |
| 26 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bordered | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Luxembourg | punct |
| 28 | Luxembourg | Luxembourg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 east | appos |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 southeast | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 southeast | det |
| 31 | southeast | southeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bordered | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 France | punct |
| 33 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 southeast | appos |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 south | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 south | det |
| 36 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bordered | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Sea | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 Sea | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Sea | det |
| 40 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Sea | compound |
| 41 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bordered | obl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 west | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 west | det |
| 44 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bordered | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 region | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | situate | participle | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | know | participle | a Situated coastal lowland region not said here | as the Low Countries | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as country=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | border | present · passive | the Netherlands | country | to the north; to the east; to the southeast; to the south; to the west; Germany obl; the North Sea obl | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Belgium», 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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