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title: Luxembourg is a secular state, but the state recognizes certain reli… — Luxembourg · tree and pragmatics
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# Luxembourg, sentence 296

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From Wikipedia, [«Luxembourg»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg), 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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Luxembourg is a secular state, but the state recognizes certain religions as officially mandated religions.

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**Who acts:** Luxembourg, state · **What happens:** be, recognize, mandate · **To what, where:** secular state, certain religions

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Luxembourg». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Luxembourg, state), 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:Luxembourg:296
# text = Luxembourg is a secular state, but the state recognizes certain religions as officially mandated religions.
1	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	secular	secular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	recognizes	recognize	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	religions	religion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	mandated	mandate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	religions	religion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 | Luxembourg | a secular state |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **recognize** | present | the state | certain religions |  |  |  | as mandated religions | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer religion=Stimulus as religion=Attribute |
| 3 | **mandate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | officially *property* | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: 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, «Luxembourg», 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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