Belgium, sentence 389
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.
Folklore plays a major role in Belgium's cultural life; the country has a comparatively high number of processions, cavalcades, parades, ommegangs, ducasses, kermesses, and other local festivals, nearly always with an originally religious or mythological background.
Who acts: Folklore, country · What happens: play, have · To what, where: major role, cultural life, high number
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 (Folklore, country), 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 | Folklore | folklore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plays | nsubj |
| 2 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 role | det |
| 4 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 role | amod |
| 5 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plays | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 7 | Belgium | Belgium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Belgium | case |
| 9 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 life | amod |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plays | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 has | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 country | det |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 plays | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 number | det |
| 16 | comparatively | comparatively | ADV | _ | 17 high | advmod |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 number | amod |
| 18 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 processions | case |
| 20 | processions | procession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 number | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cavalcades | punct |
| 22 | cavalcades | cavalcade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 processions | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 parades | punct |
| 24 | parades | parade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 processions | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ommegangs | punct |
| 26 | ommegangs | ommegang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 processions | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ducasses | punct |
| 28 | ducasses | ducass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 processions | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 kermesses | punct |
| 30 | kermesses | kermess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 processions | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 background | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 background | cc |
| 33 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 festivals | amod |
| 34 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 festivals | amod |
| 35 | festivals | festival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 background | nsubj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 background | punct |
| 37 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 38 always | advmod |
| 38 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 45 background | advmod |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 background | case |
| 40 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 background | det |
| 41 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 42 religious | advmod |
| 42 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 background | amod |
| 43 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 mythological | cc |
| 44 | mythological | mythological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 religious | conj |
| 45 | background | background | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plays | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 plays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | Folklore | a major role | Belgium's cultural life | with a religious background other local festivals | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent role=Theme with background=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | have | present | the country | a high number of processions and cavalcades and parades and ommegangs and ducasses and kermesses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=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.
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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