Iceland, sentence 176
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.
Due to climate change, Iceland is experiencing faster glacial retreat, changing vegetation patterns, and shifting marine ecosystems.
Who acts: Iceland · What happens: experience, change, shift · To what, where: glacial retreat, vegetation patterns, marine ecosystems
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 | Due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 4 change | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 Due | fixed |
| 3 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | compound |
| 4 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 experiencing | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 change | punct |
| 6 | Iceland | Iceland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 experiencing | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 experiencing | aux |
| 8 | experiencing | experience | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 glacial | advmod |
| 10 | glacial | glacial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 retreat | amod |
| 11 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 experiencing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 changing | punct |
| 13 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 experiencing | conj |
| 14 | vegetation | vegetation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 patterns | compound |
| 15 | patterns | pattern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 changing | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shifting | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shifting | cc |
| 18 | shifting | shift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 experiencing | conj |
| 19 | marine | marine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ecosystems | amod |
| 20 | ecosystems | ecosystem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shifting | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 experiencing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | experience | present · progressive | Iceland | glacial retreat | due climate change | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer retreat=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | change | gerund | Iceland not said here | vegetation patterns | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient | ||||
| 3 | shift | gerund | Iceland not said here | marine ecosystems | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer ecosystem=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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