--- title: The total number of native Dutch speakers is estimated to be about 6… — Belgium · tree and pragmatics description: The total number of native Dutch speakers is estimated to be about 6.23 million, concentrated in the northern Flanders region, while native French speakers number 3.32 million in Wallonia and an estimated 870,000 (or 85%) in the officially bilingual Brussels-Capital Region. 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The total number of native Dutch speakers is estimated to be about 6.23 million, concentrated in the northern Flanders region, while native French speakers number 3.32 million in Wallonia and an estimated 870,000 (or 85%) in the officially bilingual Brussels-Capital Region. **What happens:** estimate, be, concentrate · **To what, where:** total number, 6.23 million, northern Flanders region 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: 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:307 # text = The total number of native Dutch speakers is estimated to be about 6.23 million, concentrated in the northern Flanders region, while native French speakers number 3.32 million in Wallonia and an estimated 870,000 (or 85%) in the officially bilingual Brussels-Capital Region. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 Dutch dutch ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 speakers speaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 estimated estimate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 cop _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 6.23 6.23 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 compound _ _ 14 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 concentrated concentrate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 Flanders Flanders PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 region region NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 while while SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 speakers speaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 compound _ _ 27 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 28 3.32 3.32 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 compound _ _ 29 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 appos _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Wallonia Wallonia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 33 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 34 estimated estimate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 amod _ _ 35 870,000 870,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 48 nsubj _ _ 36 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 85 85 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 48 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 officially officially ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 bilingual bilingual NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 45 Brussels Brussels PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 Capital Capital PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 Region Region PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **estimate** | present · passive | | the total number of native Dutch speakers | | | | speakers number in Wallonia and a estimated Capital Region in the bilingual *obl* | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | | 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | 6.23 million | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **concentrate** | participle | | | | the northern Flanders region | | | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **estimate** | participle | | | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | 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 306](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belgium/306/) - next →: [sentence 308](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belgium/308/) - ↑ back to [Belgium](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Belgium/)