Belgium, sentence 78
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 1990s, Belgium saw several large scandals notably surrounding Marc Dutroux, Andre Cools, the Dioxin Affair, Agusta Scandal and the murder of Karel van Noppen.
Who acts: Belgium, several large scandals · What happens: see, surround, murder · To what, where: several large scandals, 1990s, Marc, Karel
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, several large scandals), 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 1990s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 1990s | det |
| 3 | 1990s | 1990s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 6 saw | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 1990s | punct |
| 5 | Belgium | Belgium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 scandals | amod |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 scandals | amod |
| 9 | scandals | scandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | obj |
| 10 | notably | notably | ADV | _ | 11 surrounding | advmod |
| 11 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 scandals | acl |
| 12 | Marc | Marc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 surrounding | obj |
| 13 | Dutroux | Dutroux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Marc | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Cools | punct |
| 15 | Andre | Andre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Cools | compound |
| 16 | Cools | Cool | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 Marc | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Affair | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Affair | det |
| 19 | Dioxin | Dioxin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Affair | compound |
| 20 | Affair | Affair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Marc | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Scandal | punct |
| 22 | Agusta | Agusta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Scandal | compound |
| 23 | Scandal | Scandal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Marc | list |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 murder | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 murder | det |
| 26 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Marc | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Karel | case |
| 28 | Karel | Karel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 murder | nmod |
| 29 | van | Van | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Karel | flat |
| 30 | Noppen | Noppen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Karel | flat |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Belgium | several large scandals | the 1990s | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scandal=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | surround | gerund | several large scandals not said here | Marc Agusta Scandal and Andre Cools and the Dioxin Affair and the murder of Karel | notably property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme marc=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | murder | Karel | nom murder «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.
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