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title: Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it… — Belgium · tree and pragmatics
description: Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west. Who acts: Netherlands. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgium» with its dependency tree a
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# Belgium, sentence 2

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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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Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west.

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**Who acts:** Netherlands · **What happens:** situate, know, border · **To what, where:** Situated coastal lowland region, country

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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 (Netherlands), 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:2
# text = Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west.
1	Situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	lowland	lowland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	bordered	border	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	southeast	southeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **situate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | a Situated coastal lowland region *not said here* |  |  |  | as the Low Countries | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as country=Attribute |
| 3 | **border** | present · passive | the Netherlands | country |  |  |  | to the north; to the east; to the southeast; to the south; to the west; Germany *obl*; the North Sea *obl* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |

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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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