Belgium, sentence 290
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.
The prevalent foreign nationals were Italian (171,918), French (125,061), Dutch (116,970), Moroccan (80,579), Portuguese (43,509), Spanish (42,765), Turkish (39,419) and German (37,621).
Who acts: prevalent foreign nationals · What happens: be · To what, where: 125,061, 39,419, 37,621
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 (prevalent foreign nationals), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 nationals | det |
| 2 | prevalent | prevalent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nationals | compound |
| 3 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nationals | amod |
| 4 | nationals | national | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Italian | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Italian | cop |
| 6 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 171,918 | punct |
| 8 | 171,918 | 171,918 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 Italian | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 171,918 | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 French | punct |
| 11 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Italian | conj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 125,061 | punct |
| 13 | 125,061 | 125,061 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 French | obl |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 125,061 | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Dutch | punct |
| 16 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Italian | conj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 116,970 | punct |
| 18 | 116,970 | 116,970 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 Dutch | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 116,970 | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Moroccan | punct |
| 21 | Moroccan | Moroccan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Italian | obl |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 80,579 | punct |
| 23 | 80,579 | 80,579 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 Moroccan | appos |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 80,579 | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Portuguese | punct |
| 26 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Italian | conj |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 43,509 | punct |
| 28 | 43,509 | 43,509 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 Portuguese | appos |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 43,509 | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Spanish | punct |
| 31 | Spanish | Spanish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Italian | conj |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 42,765 | punct |
| 33 | 42,765 | 42,765 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 Spanish | appos |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 42,765 | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Turkish | punct |
| 36 | Turkish | Turkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Italian | conj |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 39,419 | punct |
| 38 | 39,419 | 39,419 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 Turkish | obl |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 39,419 | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 German | cc |
| 41 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Italian | conj |
| 42 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 37,621 | punct |
| 43 | 37,621 | 37,621 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 German | obl |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 37,621 | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Italian | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prevalent foreign nationals | Moroccan obl; 171,918 appos; Spanish conj; italian property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the prevalent foreign nationals not said here | 125,061 | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | the prevalent foreign nationals not said here | 116,970 appos | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | the prevalent foreign nationals not said here | 43,509 appos | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | the prevalent foreign nationals not said here | 39,419 | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | be | the prevalent foreign nationals not said here | 37,621 | tree rules |
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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