Belgium, sentence 67

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.

Germany invaded Belgium in August 1914 as part of the Schlieffen Plan to attack France, and much of the Western Front fighting of World War I occurred in western parts of the country.

Who acts: Germany, I · What happens: invade, attack, occur, fight · To what, where: Belgium, France, Western Front fighting, western parts, World War

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 (Germany, I), 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	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 invaded	nsubj
2	invaded	invade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 invaded	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 August	case
5	August	August	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 invaded	obl
6	1914	1914	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 August	flat
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 part	case
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 invaded	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 Plan	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Plan	det
11	Schlieffen	Schlieffen	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Plan	compound
12	Plan	Plan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 part	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 attack	mark
14	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 invaded	advcl
15	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 attack	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 much	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 much	cc
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 invaded	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 fighting	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fighting	det
21	Western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fighting	amod
22	Front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fighting	amod
23	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 much	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 War	case
25	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 War	compound
26	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 fighting	nmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 occurred	nsubj
28	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fighting	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 parts	case
30	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 parts	amod
31	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 occurred	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 country	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 country	det
34	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 parts	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 invaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invade	past	Germany	Belgium		august	as part of the Schlieffen Plan	tree rules
2	attack	to-infinitive	Germany not said here	France				vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent france=Patient
3	occur	past	I	the Western Front fighting of World War not said here	western parts of the country			tree rules
4	fight			World War				nom fighting «act transitive»: of=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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Belgium, sentence 67