City of Brussels, sentence 65
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.
Brussels is ranked sixth in the index of cities which are becoming greener fastest as for the year 2022, even though in the past it had a reputation of a "traffic-choked city of high rises and concrete".
Who acts: cities, sixth · What happens: rank, become, have, choke, repute · To what, where: Brussels, index, reputation, past, choked city
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 (cities, sixth), 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 | Brussels | brussels | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ranked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ranked | aux:pass |
| 3 | ranked | rank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | sixth | sixth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ranked | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 index | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 index | det |
| 7 | index | index | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ranked | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cities | case |
| 9 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 index | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 becoming | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 becoming | aux |
| 12 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cities | acl:relcl |
| 13 | greener | green | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 becoming | xcomp |
| 14 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 greener | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 year | case |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 year | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 year | det |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 becoming | obl |
| 19 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 year | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 27 had | advmod |
| 22 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 27 had | mark |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 past | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 past | det |
| 25 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 becoming | parataxis |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 reputation | det |
| 29 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 city | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 city | det |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 city | punct |
| 33 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 choked | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 traffic | punct |
| 35 | choked | choke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 city | amod |
| 36 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 reputation | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 rises | case |
| 38 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 rises | amod |
| 39 | rises | rise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 city | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 concrete | cc |
| 41 | concrete | concrete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 rises | conj |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ranked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rank | present · passive | Brussels | the index of cities | sixth obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | become | present · progressive | cities | year | green property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | have | past | sixth | a reputation of a choked city of high rises and concrete | the past | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reputation=Patient | |||
| 4 | choke in a quote | participle | traffic compound | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | repute | a choked city of high rises and concrete | nom reputation «state 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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