Iceland, sentence 244
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.
However, the appointment is usually negotiated by the leaders of the political parties, who decide amongst themselves which parties can form the cabinet and how to distribute its seats, as long as it has majority support in the Althing.
Who acts: leaders, political parties, cabinet · What happens: negotiate, decide, form, distribute, have · To what, where: appointment, parties, cabinet, seats, majority support, Althing
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 (leaders, political parties, cabinet), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 7 negotiated | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 appointment | det |
| 4 | appointment | appointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 negotiated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 negotiated | aux:pass |
| 6 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 7 negotiated | advmod |
| 7 | negotiated | negotiate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 form | advcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 leaders | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 leaders | det |
| 10 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 negotiated | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 parties | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 parties | det |
| 13 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 parties | amod |
| 14 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 leaders | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 decide | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 decide | nsubj |
| 17 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 parties | acl:relcl |
| 18 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 19 themselves | case |
| 19 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 decide | obl |
| 20 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 21 parties | det |
| 21 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 decide | obj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 form | aux |
| 23 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cabinet | det |
| 25 | cabinet | cabinet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 form | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 distribute | cc |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 distribute | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 distribute | mark |
| 29 | distribute | distribute | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 form | conj |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 seats | nmod:poss |
| 31 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 distribute | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 long | punct |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | _ | 34 long | advmod |
| 34 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 distribute | advmod |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 has | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 has | nsubj |
| 37 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 long | advcl |
| 38 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 support | compound |
| 39 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 has | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 Althing | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Althing | det |
| 42 | Althing | Althing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 support | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | negotiate | present · passive | the leaders of the political parties | the appointment | however, usually property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | decide | present | the political parties | which parties | amongst leaders = leader | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent party=Topic | |||
| 3 | form | can | the cabinet | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cabinet=Theme | |||||
| 4 | distribute | to-infinitive | cabinet's seats | long property | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent seat=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | present | cabinet | majority support | the Althing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=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.
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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