Iceland, sentence 34
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.
Carbon dating indicates that it was abandoned sometime between 770 and 880.
Who acts: Carbon dating · What happens: indicate, abandon · To what, where: dating
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 (Carbon dating), 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 | Carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dating | compound |
| 2 | dating | dating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 indicates | nsubj |
| 3 | indicates | indicate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 abandoned | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 abandoned | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 abandoned | aux:pass |
| 7 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 indicates | ccomp |
| 8 | sometime | sometime | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 770 | advmod |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 770 | case |
| 10 | 770 | 770 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 abandoned | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 880 | cc |
| 12 | 880 | 880 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 770 | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 indicates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | indicate | present | Carbon dating | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | abandon | past · passive | dating | between 770 | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Source |
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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