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title: In the aftermath of the First World War, Belgium annexed the Prussia… — Belgium · tree and pragmatics
description: In the aftermath of the First World War, Belgium annexed the Prussian districts of Eupen and Malmedy in 1925, thereby causing the presence of a German-speaking minority. Who acts: Belgium. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgium» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belgium, sentence 70

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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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In the aftermath of the First World War, Belgium annexed the Prussian districts of Eupen and Malmedy in 1925, thereby causing the presence of a German-speaking minority.

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**Who acts:** Belgium · **What happens:** annex, cause, speak · **To what, where:** Prussian districts, aftermath, presence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:70
# text = In the aftermath of the First World War, Belgium annexed the Prussian districts of Eupen and Malmedy in 1925, thereby causing the presence of a German-speaking minority.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	aftermath	aftermath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
7	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	annexed	annex	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Prussian	prussian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Eupen	Eupen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Malmedy	Malmedy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1925	1925	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	amod	_	_
31	minority	minority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **annex** | past | Belgium | the Prussian districts of Eupen and Malmedy |  | the aftermath of the First World War |  | in 1925 | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent district=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | gerund | Belgium *not said here* | the presence of a speaking minority |  |  |  | thereby *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition presence=Patient |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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