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title: Belgium is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a complex fe… — Belgium · tree and pragmatics
description: Belgium is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a complex federal system structured on regional and linguistic grounds. Who acts: Belgium. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgium» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belgium, sentence 5

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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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Belgium is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a complex federal system structured on regional and linguistic grounds.

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**Who acts:** Belgium · **What happens:** be, structure · **To what, where:** parliamentary constitutional monarchy, complex federal system, regional grounds

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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 (Belgium), 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:5
# text = Belgium is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a complex federal system structured on regional and linguistic grounds.
1	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	parliamentary	parliamentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	monarchy	monarchy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	complex	complex	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	structured	structure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	regional	regional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	linguistic	linguistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 | Belgium | a parliamentary constitutional monarchy |  |  |  | with a complex federal system | tree rules |
| 2 | **structure** | participle |  | a complex federal system *not said here* |  | regional grounds |  |  | 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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