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title: Catholicism has traditionally been Belgium's majority religion; bein… — Belgium · tree and pragmatics
description: Catholicism has traditionally been Belgium's majority religion; being especially strong in Flanders. Who acts: Catholicism. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgium» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belgium, sentence 317

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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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Catholicism has traditionally been Belgium's majority religion; being especially strong in Flanders.

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**Who acts:** Catholicism · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** majority religion, Flanders

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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 (Catholicism), 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:317
# text = Catholicism has traditionally been Belgium's majority religion; being especially strong in Flanders.
1	Catholicism	catholicism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
5	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
11	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Flanders	flander	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Catholicism |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | Belgium's majority religion |  |  |  | Belgium *nmod:poss*; traditionally *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | Catholicism *not said here* |  |  | Flanders |  | especially, strong *property* | 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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