--- title: The prevalent foreign nationals were Italian (171,918), French (125,… — Belgium · tree and pragmatics description: The prevalent foreign nationals were Italian (171,918), French (125,061), Dutch (116,970), Moroccan (80,579), Portuguese (43,509), Spanish (42,765), Turkish (39,419) and German (37,621). Who acts: prevalent foreign nationals. 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The prevalent foreign nationals were Italian (171,918), French (125,061), Dutch (116,970), Moroccan (80,579), Portuguese (43,509), Spanish (42,765), Turkish (39,419) and German (37,621). **Who acts:** prevalent foreign nationals · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 125,061, 39,419, 37,621 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 (prevalent foreign nationals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:290 # text = The prevalent foreign nationals were Italian (171,918), French (125,061), Dutch (116,970), Moroccan (80,579), Portuguese (43,509), Spanish (42,765), Turkish (39,419) and German (37,621). 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 prevalent prevalent NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 nationals national NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 Italian Italian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 171,918 171,918 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 125,061 125,061 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Dutch dutch ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 116,970 116,970 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Moroccan Moroccan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 80,579 80,579 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Portuguese portuguese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 43,509 43,509 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 Spanish Spanish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 42,765 42,765 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 Turkish Turkish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 37 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 39,419 39,419 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 German German ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 42 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 37,621 37,621 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the prevalent foreign nationals | | | | | Moroccan *obl*; 171,918 *appos*; Spanish *conj*; italian *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the prevalent foreign nationals *not said here* | 125,061 | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | the prevalent foreign nationals *not said here* | | | | | 116,970 *appos* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | the prevalent foreign nationals *not said here* | | | | | 43,509 *appos* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | the prevalent foreign nationals *not said here* | 39,419 | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | the prevalent foreign nationals *not said here* | 37,621 | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 289](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belgium/289/) - next →: [sentence 291](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belgium/291/) - ↑ back to [Belgium](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belgium/)