Belgium, sentence 407
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.
Technically, it is an ale and traditionally each abbey's beer is served in its own glass (the forms, heights and widths are different).
Who acts: prestige, forms · What happens: be, serve · To what, where: ale, beer, own glass
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 (prestige, forms), 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 | Technically | technically | ADV | _ | 6 ale | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Technically | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ale | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ale | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ale | det |
| 6 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 served | cc |
| 8 | traditionally | traditionally | ADV | _ | 14 served | advmod |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 abbey | det |
| 10 | abbey | abbey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beer | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 abbey | case |
| 12 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 served | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 served | aux:pass |
| 14 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ale | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 glass | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 glass | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 glass | amod |
| 18 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 served | obl |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 forms | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forms | det |
| 21 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 different | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 heights | punct |
| 23 | heights | height | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 forms | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 widths | cc |
| 25 | widths | width | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 forms | conj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 different | cop |
| 27 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 glass | acl:relcl |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 different | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | prestige | a ale | technically property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | serve | present · passive | each abbey's beer | prestige's own glass | traditionally property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in glass=Location | |||
| 3 | is | present | the forms and heights and widths | prestige's own glass not said here | different property | 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.
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