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title: After Herman Van Rompuy was designated the first permanent President… — Belgium · tree and pragmatics
description: After Herman Van Rompuy was designated the first permanent President of the European Council on 19 November 2009, he offered the resignation of his government to King Albert II on 25 November 2009. Who acts: Herman. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgium» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belgium, sentence 156

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From Wikipedia, [«Belgium»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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After Herman Van Rompuy was designated the first permanent President of the European Council on 19 November 2009, he offered the resignation of his government to King Albert II on 25 November 2009.

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**Who acts:** Herman · **What happens:** designate, offer, resign · **To what, where:** Herman, 19, resignation, King, 25, government

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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 (Herman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Belgium:156
# text = After Herman Van Rompuy was designated the first permanent President of the European Council on 19 November 2009, he offered the resignation of his government to King Albert II on 25 November 2009.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	Herman	Herman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Van	Van	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Rompuy	Rompuy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	designated	designate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
9	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
17	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	resignation	resignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	Albert	Albert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	28	flat	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
33	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:unmarked	_	_
34	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **designate** | past · passive |  | Herman |  | 19  November |  | the first permanent President of the European Council *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme president=Attribute |
| 2 | **offer** | past | Herman | the resignation of resignation's government | King | 25  November  2009 |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent resignation=Theme to king=Goal |
| 3 | **resign** |  |  | resignation's government |  |  |  |  | nom resignation «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Belgium», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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