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title: Technically, it is an ale and traditionally each abbey's beer is ser… — Belgium · tree and pragmatics
description: Technically, it is an ale and traditionally each abbey's beer is served in its own glass (the forms, heights and widths are different). Who acts: prestige, forms. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgium» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belgium, sentence 407

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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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Technically, it is an ale and traditionally each abbey's beer is served in its own glass (the forms, heights and widths are different).

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**Who acts:** prestige, forms · **What happens:** be, serve · **To what, where:** ale, beer, own glass

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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 (prestige, forms), 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:407
# text = Technically, it is an ale and traditionally each abbey's beer is served in its own glass (the forms, heights and widths are different).
1	Technically	technically	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	abbey	abbey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	heights	height	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	widths	width	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | prestige | a ale |  |  |  | technically *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | present · passive |  | each abbey's beer |  | prestige's own glass |  | traditionally *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in glass=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | the forms and heights and widths | prestige's own glass *not said here* |  |  |  | different *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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