City of Brussels, sentence 2
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.
It is additionally the capital of the French Community of Belgium, the Flemish Community, and the Flemish Region (from which it is separate).
Who acts: City · What happens: be · To what, where: capital, Flemish Region
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 (City), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 capital | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 capital | cop |
| 3 | additionally | additionally | ADV | _ | 5 capital | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 capital | det |
| 5 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Community | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Community | det |
| 8 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Community | amod |
| 9 | Community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 capital | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Belgium | case |
| 11 | Belgium | Belgium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Community | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Community | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Community | det |
| 14 | Flemish | flemish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Community | amod |
| 15 | Community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Belgium | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Region | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Region | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Region | det |
| 19 | Flemish | Flemish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Region | compound |
| 20 | Region | Region | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 capital | parataxis |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 separate | punct |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 separate | obl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 separate | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 separate | cop |
| 26 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Region | parataxis |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 separate | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 capital | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | City | the capital | of the French Community of Belgium; the Flemish Region parataxis; additionally property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | City | the Flemish Region | separate 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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