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Further east, in 1880, a former military exercise ground and the surrounding land, also located in Etterbeek, were attached to the City to create the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark, an exhibition space commemorating the 50th anniversary of independence. **Who acts:** exhibition space · **What happens:** surround, locate, attach, create, commemorate · **To what, where:** former military exercise ground, Etterbeek, 1880, Parc Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark, 50th anniversary This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «City of Brussels». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (exhibition space), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:City_of_Brussels:19 # text = Further east, in 1880, a former military exercise ground and the surrounding land, also located in Etterbeek, were attached to the City to create the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark, an exhibition space commemorating the 50th anniversary of independence. 1 Further further ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 east east ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1880 1880 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 military military ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 exercise exercise NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 surrounding surround VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 amod _ _ 15 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 also also ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 located locate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Etterbeek Etterbeek PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 attached attach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 create create VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 Parc Parc PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 du du PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ _ 32 Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 exhibition exhibition NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 37 commemorating commemorate VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 acl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 50th 50th ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 40 amod _ _ 40 anniversary anniversary NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 independence independence NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **surround** | gerund | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **locate** | participle | | a former military exercise ground and the surrounding land *not said here* | | Etterbeek | | | tree rules | | 3 | **attach** | past · passive | | a former military exercise ground and the surrounding land | | 1880 | | to the City; east *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to city=Co-Patient | | 4 | **create** | to-infinitive | | the Parc Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cinquantenaire/jubelpark=Result | | 5 | **commemorate** | gerund | a exhibition space *not said here* | the 50th anniversary of independence | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anniversary=Theme | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «City of Brussels», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/City_of_Brussels/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/City_of_Brussels/20/) - ↑ back to [City of Brussels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/City_of_Brussels/)