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title: Folklore plays a major role in Belgium's cultural life; the country… — Belgium · tree and pragmatics
description: Folklore plays a major role in Belgium's cultural life; the country has a comparatively high number of processions, cavalcades, parades, ommegangs, ducasses, kermesses, and other local festivals, nearly always with an originally religious or mythological background. Who acts: Folklore, country. A se
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# Belgium, sentence 389

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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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Folklore plays a major role in Belgium's cultural life; the country has a comparatively high number of processions, cavalcades, parades, ommegangs, ducasses, kermesses, and other local festivals, nearly always with an originally religious or mythological background.

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**Who acts:** Folklore, country · **What happens:** play, have · **To what, where:** major role, cultural life, high number

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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 (Folklore, country), 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:389
# text = Folklore plays a major role in Belgium's cultural life; the country has a comparatively high number of processions, cavalcades, parades, ommegangs, ducasses, kermesses, and other local festivals, nearly always with an originally religious or mythological background.
1	Folklore	folklore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	comparatively	comparatively	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	processions	procession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	cavalcades	cavalcade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	parades	parade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	ommegangs	ommegang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	ducasses	ducass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	kermesses	kermess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	festivals	festival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
37	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	45	advmod	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
41	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	mythological	mythological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	_
45	background	background	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | Folklore | a major role |  | Belgium's cultural life |  | with a religious background  other local festivals | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent role=Theme with background=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | the country | a high number of processions and cavalcades and parades and ommegangs and ducasses and kermesses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |

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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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