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title: Belgium experiences some of the most congested traffic in Europe. — Belgium · tree and pragmatics
description: Belgium experiences some of the most congested traffic in Europe. Who acts: Belgium. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgium» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belgium, sentence 257

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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 experiences some of the most congested traffic in Europe.

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**Who acts:** Belgium · **What happens:** experience, congest · **To what, where:** some

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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:257
# text = Belgium experiences some of the most congested traffic in Europe.
1	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	experiences	experience	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	congested	congest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **experience** | present | Belgium | some of the congested traffic in Europe |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus |
| 2 | **congest** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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