Iceland, sentence 399
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 original population of Iceland was of Norse and Gaelic origin which is evident from literary evidence dating from the settlement period as well as from later scientific studies such as blood type and genetic analyses.
Who acts: original population, Norse origin · What happens: be · To what, where: literary evidence 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 (original population, Norse origin), 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 | 3 population | det |
| 2 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 population | amod |
| 3 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 origin | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Iceland | case |
| 5 | Iceland | Iceland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 population | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 origin | cop |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 origin | case |
| 8 | Norse | norse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 origin | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Gaelic | cc |
| 10 | Gaelic | gaelic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Norse | conj |
| 11 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 evident | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 evident | cop |
| 14 | evident | evident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 origin | acl:relcl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 dating | case |
| 16 | literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dating | amod |
| 17 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dating | compound |
| 18 | dating | dating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 evident | obl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 period | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 period | det |
| 21 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 period | compound |
| 22 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dating | nmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 29 studies | cc |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 as | fixed |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 as | fixed |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 studies | case |
| 27 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 scientific | advmod |
| 28 | scientific | scientific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 studies | amod |
| 29 | studies | study | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dating | conj |
| 30 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 33 type | case |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 such | fixed |
| 32 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 type | compound |
| 33 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 studies | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 analyses | cc |
| 35 | genetic | genetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 analyses | amod |
| 36 | analyses | analysis | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 type | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 origin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the original population of Iceland | of Norse origin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Norse origin | literary evidence dating from the settlement period as scientific studies such blood type and genetic analyses | evident property | tree rules |
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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