Belgium, sentence 70
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.
In the aftermath of the First World War, Belgium annexed the Prussian districts of Eupen and Malmedy in 1925, thereby causing the presence of a German-speaking minority.
Who acts: Belgium · What happens: annex, cause, speak · To what, where: Prussian districts, aftermath, presence · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Belgium), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 aftermath | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 aftermath | det |
| 3 | aftermath | aftermath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 annexed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 War | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 War | det |
| 6 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 War | amod |
| 7 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 War | compound |
| 8 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 aftermath | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 aftermath | punct |
| 10 | Belgium | Belgium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 annexed | nsubj |
| 11 | annexed | annex | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 districts | det |
| 13 | Prussian | prussian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 districts | amod |
| 14 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 annexed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Eupen | case |
| 16 | Eupen | Eupen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 districts | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Malmedy | cc |
| 18 | Malmedy | Malmedy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Eupen | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 1925 | case |
| 20 | 1925 | 1925 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 annexed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 causing | punct |
| 22 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 23 causing | advmod |
| 23 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 annexed | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 presence | det |
| 25 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 causing | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 minority | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 minority | det |
| 28 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 speaking | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 German | punct |
| 30 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 minority | amod |
| 31 | minority | minority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 presence | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 annexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | annex | past | Belgium | the Prussian districts of Eupen and Malmedy | the aftermath of the First World War | in 1925 | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent district=Theme | ||
| 2 | cause | gerund | Belgium not said here | the presence of a speaking minority | thereby property | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition presence=Patient | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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