Iceland, sentence 556
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.
Singer-songwriter Björk received international acclaim for her starring role in the Danish musical drama Dancer in the Dark, directed by Lars von Trier, in which she plays Selma Ježková, a factory worker who struggles to pay for her son's eye operation.
Who acts: Singer songwriter, songwriter, factory worker, son · What happens: receive, star, direct, play, struggle, pay · To what, where: international acclaim, Selma
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 (Singer songwriter, songwriter, factory worker, son), 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 | Singer | Singer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 songwriter | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Singer | punct |
| 3 | songwriter | songwriter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 received | nsubj |
| 4 | Björk | Björk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 songwriter | appos |
| 5 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 acclaim | amod |
| 7 | acclaim | acclaim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 received | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 role | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 role | nmod:poss |
| 10 | starring | star | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 role | amod |
| 11 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 acclaim | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 drama | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 drama | det |
| 14 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 drama | amod |
| 15 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 drama | amod |
| 16 | drama | drama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 role | nmod |
| 17 | Dancer | Dancer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 drama | appos |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Dark | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Dark | det |
| 20 | Dark | Dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Dancer | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 directed | punct |
| 22 | directed | direct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 drama | parataxis |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 Lars | case |
| 24 | Lars | Lar | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 directed | obl:agent |
| 25 | von | von | ADP | _ | 26 Trier | case |
| 26 | Trier | Trier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Lars | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 plays | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 plays | obl |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 plays | nsubj |
| 31 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 directed | conj |
| 32 | Selma | Selma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 plays | obj |
| 33 | Ježková | Ježková | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Selma | flat |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 worker | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 worker | det |
| 36 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 worker | compound |
| 37 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Selma | appos |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 struggles | nsubj |
| 39 | struggles | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 worker | acl:relcl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 pay | mark |
| 41 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 struggles | xcomp |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 operation | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 son | nmod:poss |
| 44 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 operation | nmod:poss |
| 45 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 son | case |
| 46 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 operation | compound |
| 47 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 pay | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | Singer songwriter | international acclaim | for songwriter's starring role in the Danish musical drama | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acclaim=Theme | |||
| 2 | star | gerund | vn captain-29.8-1-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | direct | participle | Lars von Trier obl:agent | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | play | present | songwriter | Selma | which obl | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent selma=Theme | |||
| 5 | struggle | present | a factory worker | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | pay | to-infinitive | a factory worker not said here | for songwriter's son's eye operation | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for operation=Theme | ||||
| 7 | operate | songwriter's son | nom operation «state transitive»: poss=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.
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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