Iceland, sentence 322
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 Financial Supervisory Authority of Iceland used the permission granted by the emergency legislation to take over the domestic operations of the three largest banks.
Who acts: Supervisory Authority · What happens: use, grant, take over, operate · To what, where: permission, domestic operations, three largest banks
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 (Supervisory Authority), 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 | 4 Authority | det |
| 2 | Financial | Financial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Supervisory | amod |
| 3 | Supervisory | Supervisory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Authority | compound |
| 4 | Authority | Authority | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 used | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Iceland | case |
| 6 | Iceland | Iceland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Authority | nmod |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 permission | det |
| 9 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | obj |
| 10 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 permission | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 legislation | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 legislation | det |
| 13 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 legislation | compound |
| 14 | legislation | legislation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 granted | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 used | advcl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 take | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 operations | det |
| 19 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 operations | amod |
| 20 | operations | operation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 take | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 banks | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 banks | det |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 banks | nummod |
| 24 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 banks | amod |
| 25 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 operations | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | the Supervisory Authority of Iceland | the permission | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grant | participle | the permission not said here | by the emergency legislation | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take over | to-infinitive | the Supervisory Authority of Iceland not said here | the domestic operations of the three largest banks | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Theme | ||||
| 4 | operate | the three largest banks | nom operation «state 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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