Iceland, sentence 16
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.
During the occupation of Denmark in World War II, Iceland voted overwhelmingly to become a republic in 1944, ending its remaining formal ties to Denmark.
Who acts: Iceland · What happens: vote, become, end, occupy · To what, where: republic, 1944, remaining formal ties, Denmark
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 (Iceland), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 occupation | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 occupation | det |
| 3 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 voted | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Denmark | case |
| 5 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 occupation | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 War | case |
| 7 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 War | compound |
| 8 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Denmark | nmod |
| 9 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 8 War | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 occupation | punct |
| 11 | Iceland | Iceland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 voted | nsubj |
| 12 | voted | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | overwhelmingly | overwhelmingly | ADV | _ | 12 voted | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 become | mark |
| 15 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 voted | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 republic | det |
| 17 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 become | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 1944 | case |
| 19 | 1944 | 1944 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 become | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ending | punct |
| 21 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 become | advcl |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 ties | nmod:poss |
| 23 | remaining | remaining | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ties | amod |
| 24 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ties | amod |
| 25 | ties | tie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ending | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Denmark | case |
| 27 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 ending | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 voted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote | past | Iceland | during the occupation of Denmark in World War | overwhelmingly property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | become | to-infinitive | Iceland not said here | a republic | in 1944 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1944=Result | |||
| 3 | end | gerund | Iceland not said here | republic's remaining formal ties | Denmark | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality tie=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | occupy | Denmark in World War | nom occupation «act 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.
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