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title: Belgium has troops deployed in several African countries as part of… — Belgium · tree and pragmatics
description: Belgium has troops deployed in several African countries as part of UN or EU missions, in Iraq for the war against the Islamic State, and in eastern Europe for the NATO presence there. Who acts: Belgium. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgium» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belgium, sentence 221

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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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Belgium has troops deployed in several African countries as part of UN or EU missions, in Iraq for the war against the Islamic State, and in eastern Europe for the NATO presence there.

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**Who acts:** Belgium · **What happens:** have, deploy · **To what, where:** troops, Iraq, several African countries

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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 (Belgium), 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:221
# text = Belgium has troops deployed in several African countries as part of UN or EU missions, in Iraq for the war against the Islamic State, and in eastern Europe for the NATO presence there.
1	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obj	_	_
4	deployed	deploy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	EU	EU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	missions	mission	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	against	against	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	NATO	NATO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Belgium | troops |  | Iraq for the war against the Islamic State |  | eastern Europe for the NATO presence *advcl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troops=Patient |
| 2 | **deploy** | participle |  | troops *not said here* |  | several African countries |  | as part of UN missions | tree rules |

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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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