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title: The separatist New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) party, for instance, is t… — Belgium · tree and pragmatics
description: The separatist New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) party, for instance, is the largest party in Belgium. Who acts: separatist party. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgium» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belgium, sentence 268

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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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The separatist New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) party, for instance, is the largest party in Belgium.

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**Who acts:** separatist party · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** largest party, Belgium

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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 (separatist party), 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:268
# text = The separatist New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) party, for instance, is the largest party in Belgium.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	separatist	separatist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
3	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Flemish	Flemish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Alliance	Alliance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	N	N	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	VA	VA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | separatist party and instance | the largest party |  | Belgium |  |  | 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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