--- title: Brussels is ranked sixth in the index of cities which are becoming g… — City of Brussels · tree and pragmatics description: Brussels is ranked sixth in the index of cities which are becoming greener fastest as for the year 2022, even though in the past it had a reputation of a "traffic-choked city of high rises and concrete". Who acts: cities, sixth. 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Brussels is ranked sixth in the index of cities which are becoming greener fastest as for the year 2022, even though in the past it had a reputation of a "traffic-choked city of high rises and concrete". **Who acts:** cities, sixth · **What happens:** rank, become, have, choke, repute · **To what, where:** Brussels, index, reputation, past, choked city 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 (cities, sixth), 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:65 # text = Brussels is ranked sixth in the index of cities which are becoming greener fastest as for the year 2022, even though in the past it had a reputation of a "traffic-choked city of high rises and concrete". 1 Brussels brussels NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 ranked rank VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 sixth sixth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 index index NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 becoming become VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 greener green ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 xcomp _ _ 14 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 obl _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 2022 2022 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 even even ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 22 though though SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 past past NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 reputation reputation NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 traffic traffic NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 choked choke VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 amod _ _ 36 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 rises rise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 concrete concrete NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rank** | present · passive | | Brussels | | the index of cities | | sixth *obj* | tree rules | | 2 | **become** | present · progressive | cities | | | | year | green *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **have** | past | sixth | a reputation of a choked city of high rises and concrete | | the past | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reputation=Patient | | 4 | **choke** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | traffic *compound* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **repute** | | | a choked city of high rises and concrete | | | | | nom reputation «state transitive»: of=patient | 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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/City_of_Brussels/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/City_of_Brussels/66/) - ↑ back to [City of Brussels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/City_of_Brussels/)