Iceland, sentence 129
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 nearest part of Continental Europe is mainland Norway, about 970 km away, while mainland North America is 2070 km away, at the northern tip of Labrador.
Who acts: nearest part, mainland · What happens: be · To what, where: mainland, 2070 km
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 (nearest part, mainland), 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 part | det |
| 2 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 part | amod |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mainland | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Europe | case |
| 5 | Continental | continental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Europe | amod |
| 6 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 part | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mainland | cop |
| 8 | mainland | mainland | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mainland | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 km | punct |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 970 | advmod |
| 12 | 970 | 970 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 km | nummod |
| 13 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mainland | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 km | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 km | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 km | mark |
| 17 | mainland | mainland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 km | nsubj |
| 18 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 America | compound |
| 19 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 mainland | appos |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 km | cop |
| 21 | 2070 | 2070 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 km | nummod |
| 22 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mainland | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 km | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 tip | punct |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 tip | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tip | det |
| 27 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tip | amod |
| 28 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mainland | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Labrador | case |
| 30 | Labrador | Labrador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 tip | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mainland | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the nearest part of Continental Europe | mainland and 970 km and 2070 km and the northern tip of Labrador | Norway appos; 970 km conj; the northern tip of Labrador conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | mainland | 2070 km | away property | 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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