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title: A major contribution to fundamental science was also due to a Belgia… — Belgium · tree and pragmatics
description: A major contribution to fundamental science was also due to a Belgian, Georges Lemaître (Catholic University of Louvain), who is credited with proposing the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe in 1927. Who acts: major contribution. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgium» with its dependency tr
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# Belgium, sentence 275

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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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A major contribution to fundamental science was also due to a Belgian, Georges Lemaître (Catholic University of Louvain), who is credited with proposing the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe in 1927.

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**Who acts:** major contribution · **What happens:** be, credit, propose · **To what, where:** Georges Lemaître, Bang theory

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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 (major contribution), 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:275
# text = A major contribution to fundamental science was also due to a Belgian, Georges Lemaître (Catholic University of Louvain), who is credited with proposing the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe in 1927.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	contribution	contribution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	fundamental	fundamental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Belgian	Belgian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Georges	George	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	compound	_	_
15	Lemaître	Lemaître	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Catholic	catholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Louvain	Louvain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	credited	credit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
26	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	proposing	propose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Bang	Bang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	theory	theory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	universe	universe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	1927	1927	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a major contribution to fundamental science |  |  |  |  | Georges Lemaître *obl*; belgian *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **credit** | present · passive |  | Georges Lemaître |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **propose** | gerund |  | the Bang theory of the origin of the universe in 1927 |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theory=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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