Iceland, sentence 39
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.
Náttfari settled in what is now known as Náttfaravík, and he and his slaves became the first documented permanent residents of Iceland.
Who acts: Náttfari · What happens: settle, know, become, document · To what, where: first documented permanent residents
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 (Náttfari), 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 | Náttfari | Náttfari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 settled | nsubj |
| 2 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 what | case |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 settled | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 known | aux:pass |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 known | advmod |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 Náttfaravík | case |
| 9 | Náttfaravík | Náttfaravík | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 known | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 became | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 became | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 became | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 slaves | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 15 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 he | conj |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 settled | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 residents | det |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 residents | amod |
| 19 | documented | document | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 residents | amod |
| 20 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 residents | amod |
| 21 | residents | resident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 became | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Iceland | case |
| 23 | Iceland | Iceland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 residents | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past | Náttfari | what obl | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in what=Location | ||||
| 2 | know | present · passive | now | as Náttfaravík | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as náttfaravík=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | become | past | Náttfari | the first documented permanent residents of Iceland | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | document | participle | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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