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title: The Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) was triggered by the Spanish gover… — Belgium · tree and pragmatics
description: The Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) was triggered by the Spanish government's policy towards Protestantism, which was becoming popular in the Low Countries. Who acts: policy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgium» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belgium, sentence 48

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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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The Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) was triggered by the Spanish government's policy towards Protestantism, which was becoming popular in the Low Countries.

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**Who acts:** policy · **What happens:** trigger, become · **To what, where:** War

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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 (policy), 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:48
# text = The Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) was triggered by the Spanish government's policy towards Protestantism, which was becoming popular in the Low Countries.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Eighty	Eighty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Years	Year	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	1568	1568	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	1648	1648	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	triggered	trigger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Protestantism	protestantism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
25	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trigger** | past · passive | the Spanish government's policy towards Protestantism | the Eighty Years's War |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | past · progressive | the Spanish government's policy towards Protestantism |  |  |  |  | popular *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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