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title: In the 1990s, Belgium saw several large scandals notably surrounding… — Belgium · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 1990s, Belgium saw several large scandals notably surrounding Marc Dutroux, Andre Cools, the Dioxin Affair, Agusta Scandal and the murder of Karel van Noppen. Who acts: Belgium, several large scandals. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Belgium» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Belgium, sentence 78

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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 1990s, Belgium saw several large scandals notably surrounding Marc Dutroux, Andre Cools, the Dioxin Affair, Agusta Scandal and the murder of Karel van Noppen.

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**Who acts:** Belgium, several large scandals · **What happens:** see, surround, murder · **To what, where:** several large scandals, 1990s, Marc, Karel

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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, several large scandals), 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:78
# text = In the 1990s, Belgium saw several large scandals notably surrounding Marc Dutroux, Andre Cools, the Dioxin Affair, Agusta Scandal and the murder of Karel van Noppen.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	scandals	scandal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	notably	notably	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	Marc	Marc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	Dutroux	Dutroux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Andre	Andre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Cools	Cool	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Dioxin	Dioxin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Affair	Affair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Agusta	Agusta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Scandal	Scandal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	list	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	murder	murder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Karel	Karel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	van	Van	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	Noppen	Noppen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Belgium | several large scandals |  | the 1990s |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scandal=Stimulus |
| 2 | **surround** | gerund | several large scandals *not said here* | Marc  Agusta Scandal and Andre Cools and the Dioxin Affair and the murder of Karel |  |  |  | notably *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme marc=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **murder** |  |  | Karel |  |  |  |  | nom murder «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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