Belgium, sentence 275
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.
A major contribution to fundamental science was also due to a Belgian, Georges Lemaître (Catholic University of Louvain), who is credited with proposing the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe in 1927.
Who acts: major contribution · What happens: be, credit, propose · To what, where: Georges Lemaître, Bang theory
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 (major contribution), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 contribution | det |
| 2 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 contribution | amod |
| 3 | contribution | contribution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Belgian | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 science | case |
| 5 | fundamental | fundamental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 science | amod |
| 6 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 contribution | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Belgian | cop |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 Belgian | advmod |
| 9 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 12 Belgian | case |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 due | fixed |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Belgian | det |
| 12 | Belgian | Belgian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Lemaître | punct |
| 14 | Georges | George | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 Lemaître | compound |
| 15 | Lemaître | Lemaître | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Belgian | obl |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 University | punct |
| 17 | Catholic | catholic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 University | amod |
| 18 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Lemaître | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Louvain | case |
| 20 | Louvain | Louvain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 University | nmod |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 University | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 credited | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 credited | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 credited | aux:pass |
| 25 | credited | credit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 Lemaître | acl:relcl |
| 26 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 27 proposing | mark |
| 27 | proposing | propose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 credited | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 theory | det |
| 29 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Bang | compound |
| 30 | Bang | Bang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 theory | compound |
| 31 | theory | theory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 proposing | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 origin | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 origin | det |
| 34 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 theory | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 universe | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 universe | det |
| 37 | universe | universe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 origin | nmod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 1927 | case |
| 39 | 1927 | 1927 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 universe | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Belgian | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a major contribution to fundamental science | Georges Lemaître obl; belgian property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | credit | present · passive | Georges Lemaître | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | propose | gerund | the Bang theory of the origin of the universe in 1927 | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theory=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.
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