Iceland, sentence 128
From Wikipedia, «Iceland», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The closest bodies of land in Europe are the Faroe Islands (420 km); Jan Mayen Island (570 km); Shetland and the Outer Hebrides, both about 740 km; and the Scottish mainland and Orkney, both about 750 km.
Who acts: closest bodies · What happens: be · To what, where: Faroe Islands
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Iceland». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (closest bodies), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bodies | det |
| 2 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 bodies | amod |
| 3 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Islands | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 land | case |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bodies | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Europe | case |
| 7 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 land | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Islands | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Islands | det |
| 10 | Faroe | Faroe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Islands | compound |
| 11 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 km | punct |
| 13 | 420 | 420 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 km | nummod |
| 14 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Islands | appos |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 km | punct |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 Jan | punct |
| 17 | Jan | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Islands | conj |
| 18 | Mayen | Mayen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Jan | flat |
| 19 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Jan | flat |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 km | punct |
| 21 | 570 | 570 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 km | nummod |
| 22 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Jan | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 km | punct |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 Shetland | punct |
| 25 | Shetland | Shetland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Islands | appos |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Hebrides | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Hebrides | det |
| 28 | Outer | Outer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Hebrides | compound |
| 29 | Hebrides | Hebrides | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Shetland | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 km | punct |
| 31 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 34 km | cc:preconj |
| 32 | about | about | ADV | _ | 33 740 | advmod |
| 33 | 740 | 740 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 km | nummod |
| 34 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 Shetland | conj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 mainland | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 mainland | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 mainland | det |
| 38 | Scottish | Scottish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 mainland | amod |
| 39 | mainland | mainland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Islands | appos |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 Orkney | cc |
| 41 | Orkney | orkney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 mainland | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 km | punct |
| 43 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 46 km | cc:preconj |
| 44 | about | about | ADV | _ | 45 750 | advmod |
| 45 | 750 | 750 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 46 km | nummod |
| 46 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 mainland | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Islands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the closest bodies of land in Europe | the Faroe Islands and Jan | 420 km appos; Shetland and the Outer Hebrides both 740 km appos; the Scottish mainland and Orkney both 750 km appos | tree rules |
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, «Iceland», 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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