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title: Germany invaded Belgium in August 1914 as part of the Schlieffen Pla… — Belgium · tree and pragmatics
description: Germany invaded Belgium in August 1914 as part of the Schlieffen Plan to attack France, and much of the Western Front fighting of World War I occurred in western parts of the country. Who acts: Germany, I. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgium» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belgium, sentence 67

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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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Germany invaded Belgium in August 1914 as part of the Schlieffen Plan to attack France, and much of the Western Front fighting of World War I occurred in western parts of the country.

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**Who acts:** Germany, I · **What happens:** invade, attack, occur, fight · **To what, where:** Belgium, France, Western Front fighting, western parts, World 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 (Germany, I), 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:67
# text = Germany invaded Belgium in August 1914 as part of the Schlieffen Plan to attack France, and much of the Western Front fighting of World War I occurred in western parts of the country.
1	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	invaded	invade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	1914	1914	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Schlieffen	Schlieffen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Plan	Plan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
15	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	Front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invade** | past | Germany | Belgium |  |  | august | as part of the Schlieffen Plan | tree rules |
| 2 | **attack** | to-infinitive | Germany *not said here* | France |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent france=Patient |
| 3 | **occur** | past | I | the Western Front fighting of World War *not said here* |  | western parts of the country |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fight** |  |  | World War |  |  |  |  | nom fighting «act transitive»: of=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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