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title: Intercommunal tensions rose and the constitution was amended to mini… — Belgium · tree and pragmatics
description: Intercommunal tensions rose and the constitution was amended to minimize the potential for conflict. Who acts: Intercommunal tensions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgium» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belgium, sentence 181

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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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Intercommunal tensions rose and the constitution was amended to minimize the potential for conflict.

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**Who acts:** Intercommunal tensions · **What happens:** rise, amend, minimize · **To what, where:** constitution, potential

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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 (Intercommunal tensions), 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:181
# text = Intercommunal tensions rose and the constitution was amended to minimize the potential for conflict.
1	Intercommunal	intercommunal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tensions	tension	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	amended	amend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	minimize	minimize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	potential	potential	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | Intercommunal tensions |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **amend** | past · passive |  | the constitution |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **minimize** | to-infinitive |  | the potential |  |  |  | for conflict | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent potential=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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