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title: However, as the territory had been part of the Holy Roman Empire as… — Luxembourg · tree and pragmatics
description: However, as the territory had been part of the Holy Roman Empire as well as the Habsburgian Netherlands in the past, both the Kingdom of Prussia and the newly formed United Kingdom of the Netherlands, which included both the present Kingdom of the Netherlands and Belgium, now claimed possession of t
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# Luxembourg, sentence 77

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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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However, as the territory had been part of the Holy Roman Empire as well as the Habsburgian Netherlands in the past, both the Kingdom of Prussia and the newly formed United Kingdom of the Netherlands, which included both the present Kingdom of the Netherlands and Belgium, now claimed possession of the territory.

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**Who acts:** territory, United Kingdom · **What happens:** be, form, include, claim, possess · **To what, where:** United Kingdom, present Kingdom, territory

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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 (territory, United Kingdom), 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:77
# text = However, as the territory had been part of the Holy Roman Empire as well as the Habsburgian Netherlands in the past, both the Kingdom of Prussia and the newly formed United Kingdom of the Netherlands, which included both the present Kingdom of the Netherlands and Belgium, now claimed possession of the territory.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	13	compound	_	_
12	Roman	Roman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	19	cc	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Habsburgian	Habsburgian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc:preconj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Prussia	Prussia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
33	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	34	flat	_	_
34	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	included	include	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
41	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc:preconj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	52	advmod	_	_
52	claimed	claim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	amod	_	_
53	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	appos	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | the territory |  |  |  |  | as part; of the Holy Roman Empire | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | past |  | United Kingdom of the Netherlands |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kingdom=Theme |
| 3 | **include** | past | United Kingdom of the Netherlands | the present Kingdom of the Netherlands and Belgium |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme |
| 4 | **claim** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **possess** |  |  | the territory |  |  |  |  | nom possession «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, «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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