City of Brussels, sentence 3
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.
The City of Brussels is also the administrative centre of the European Union, as it hosts a number of principal EU institutions in its European Quarter.
Who acts: City · What happens: be, host · To what, where: administrative centre, number
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 City | det |
| 2 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 centre | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Brussels | case |
| 4 | Brussels | Brussels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 City | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 centre | cop |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 centre | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 centre | det |
| 8 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 centre | amod |
| 9 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Union | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Union | det |
| 12 | European | European | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Union | compound |
| 13 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 centre | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hosts | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 hosts | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hosts | nsubj |
| 17 | hosts | host | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 centre | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 number | det |
| 19 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hosts | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 institutions | case |
| 21 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 institutions | amod |
| 22 | EU | EU | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 institutions | compound |
| 23 | institutions | institution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 number | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 Quarter | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 Quarter | nmod:poss |
| 26 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Quarter | amod |
| 27 | Quarter | Quarter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 institutions | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 centre | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the City of Brussels | the administrative centre | of the European Union | tree rules | |||
| 2 | host | present | City | a number of principal EU institutions in City's European Quarter | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Beneficiary |
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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