City of Brussels, sentence 19
From Wikipedia, «City of Brussels», 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.
Further east, in 1880, a former military exercise ground and the surrounding land, also located in Etterbeek, were attached to the City to create the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark, an exhibition space commemorating the 50th anniversary of independence.
Who acts: exhibition space · What happens: surround, locate, attach, create, commemorate · To what, where: former military exercise ground, Etterbeek, 1880, Parc Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark, 50th anniversary
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «City of Brussels». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (exhibition space), 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 | Further | further | ADV | _ | 2 east | advmod |
| 2 | east | east | ADV | _ | 23 attached | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 east | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1880 | case |
| 5 | 1880 | 1880 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 attached | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 1880 | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 8 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ground | amod |
| 9 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ground | amod |
| 10 | exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ground | compound |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 attached | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 land | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 14 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 land | amod |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ground | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 located | punct |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 located | advmod |
| 18 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ground | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Etterbeek | case |
| 20 | Etterbeek | Etterbeek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 located | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Etterbeek | punct |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 attached | aux:pass |
| 23 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 City | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 City | det |
| 26 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 attached | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 create | mark |
| 28 | create | create | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 attached | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark | det |
| 30 | Parc | Parc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark | compound |
| 31 | du | du | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Parc | flat |
| 32 | Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark | Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 create | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 space | punct |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 space | det |
| 35 | exhibition | exhibition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 space | compound |
| 36 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark | appos |
| 37 | commemorating | commemorate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 space | acl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 anniversary | det |
| 39 | 50th | 50th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 40 anniversary | amod |
| 40 | anniversary | anniversary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 commemorating | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 independence | case |
| 42 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 anniversary | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 attached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | locate | participle | a former military exercise ground and the surrounding land not said here | Etterbeek | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | attach | past · passive | a former military exercise ground and the surrounding land | 1880 | to the City; east property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to city=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | create | to-infinitive | the Parc Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cinquantenaire/jubelpark=Result | |||||
| 5 | commemorate | gerund | a exhibition space not said here | the 50th anniversary of independence | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anniversary=Theme |
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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