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title: It is additionally the capital of the French Community of Belgium, t… — City of Brussels · tree and pragmatics
description: It is additionally the capital of the French Community of Belgium, the Flemish Community, and the Flemish Region (from which it is separate). Who acts: City. A sentence of Wikipedia's «City of Brussels» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# City of Brussels, sentence 2

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From Wikipedia, [«City of Brussels»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Brussels), 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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It is additionally the capital of the French Community of Belgium, the Flemish Community, and the Flemish Region (from which it is separate).

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**Who acts:** City · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** capital, Flemish Region

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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 (City), 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:City_of_Brussels:2
# text = It is additionally the capital of the French Community of Belgium, the Flemish Community, and the Flemish Region (from which it is separate).
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	additionally	additionally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Flemish	flemish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Flemish	Flemish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Region	Region	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | City | the capital |  |  |  | of the French Community of Belgium; the Flemish Region *parataxis*; additionally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | City |  |  | the Flemish Region |  | separate *property* | 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, «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.

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