Belgium, sentence 307
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 total number of native Dutch speakers is estimated to be about 6.23 million, concentrated in the northern Flanders region, while native French speakers number 3.32 million in Wallonia and an estimated 870,000 (or 85%) in the officially bilingual Brussels-Capital Region.
What happens: estimate, be, concentrate · To what, where: total number, 6.23 million, northern Flanders region
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: 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 | 3 number | det |
| 2 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 number | amod |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 estimated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 speakers | case |
| 5 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 speakers | amod |
| 6 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 speakers | amod |
| 7 | speakers | speaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 estimated | aux:pass |
| 9 | estimated | estimate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 million | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 million | cop |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 million | advmod |
| 13 | 6.23 | 6.23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 million | compound |
| 14 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 estimated | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 concentrated | punct |
| 16 | concentrated | concentrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 estimated | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 region | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 region | det |
| 19 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 region | amod |
| 20 | Flanders | Flanders | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 region | compound |
| 21 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 concentrated | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 number | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 number | mark |
| 24 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 speakers | amod |
| 25 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 speakers | amod |
| 26 | speakers | speaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 number | compound |
| 27 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 estimated | obl |
| 28 | 3.32 | 3.32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 million | compound |
| 29 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 number | appos |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 Wallonia | case |
| 31 | Wallonia | Wallonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 number | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 Region | cc |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 Region | det |
| 34 | estimated | estimate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 Region | amod |
| 35 | 870,000 | 870,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 48 Region | nsubj |
| 36 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 % | punct |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 % | cc |
| 38 | 85 | 85 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 % | nummod |
| 39 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 48 Region | parataxis |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 % | punct |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 bilingual | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 bilingual | det |
| 43 | officially | officially | ADV | _ | 44 bilingual | advmod |
| 44 | bilingual | bilingual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 Region | obl |
| 45 | Brussels | Brussels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Capital | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 Brussels | punct |
| 47 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Region | compound |
| 48 | Region | Region | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Wallonia | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 estimated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | estimate | present · passive | the total number of native Dutch speakers | speakers number in Wallonia and a estimated Capital Region in the bilingual obl | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | 6.23 million | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | concentrate | participle | the northern Flanders region | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | estimate | participle | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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