Iceland, sentence 283
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.
Iceland was the neutral host of the historic 1986 Reagan–Gorbachev summit in Reykjavík, which set the stage for the end of the Cold War.
Who acts: Iceland, Gorbachev summit · What happens: be, set · To what, where: neutral host, stage
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, Gorbachev summit), 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 | Iceland | Iceland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 host | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 host | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 host | det |
| 4 | neutral | neutral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 host | amod |
| 5 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 historic | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 historic | det |
| 8 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 host | amod |
| 9 | 1986 | 1986 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 historic | list |
| 10 | Reagan | Reagan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 1986 | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 summit | punct |
| 12 | Gorbachev | Gorbachev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 summit | compound |
| 13 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Reagan | appos |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Reykjavík | case |
| 15 | Reykjavík | Reykjavík | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 summit | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 set | nsubj |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 summit | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stage | det |
| 20 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 set | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 end | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 end | det |
| 23 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 set | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 War | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 War | det |
| 26 | Cold | Cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 War | amod |
| 27 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 end | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 host | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Iceland | the neutral host | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set | past | Gorbachev summit in Reykjavík | the stage | for the end of the Cold War | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent stage=Patient for end=Beneficiary |
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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