Iceland, sentence 571
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.
In February 2013 the country (ministry of the interior) was researching possible methods to protect children in regards to Internet pornography, claiming that pornography online is a threat to children as it supports child slavery and abuse.
Who acts: country, researching, pornography · What happens: research, protect, claim, be, support · To what, where: possible methods, children, regards, pornography, threat, child slavery
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 (country, researching, pornography), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 February | case |
| 2 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 researching | obl |
| 3 | 2013 | 2013 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 February | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 researching | nsubj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 ministry | punct |
| 7 | ministry | ministry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 country | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 interior | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 interior | det |
| 10 | interior | interior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ministry | nmod |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 ministry | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 researching | aux |
| 13 | researching | research | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 threat | csubj |
| 14 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 methods | amod |
| 15 | methods | method | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 researching | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 protect | mark |
| 17 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 researching | advcl |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 protect | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 regards | case |
| 20 | regards | regards | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 protect | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 pornography | case |
| 22 | Internet | internet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pornography | compound |
| 23 | pornography | pornography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 protect | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 claiming | punct |
| 25 | claiming | claim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 researching | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 pornography | mark |
| 27 | pornography | pornography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 claiming | obj |
| 28 | online | online | ADV | _ | 25 claiming | advmod |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 threat | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 threat | det |
| 31 | threat | threat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 children | case |
| 33 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 threat | nmod |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 supports | mark |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 supports | nsubj |
| 36 | supports | support | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 threat | advcl |
| 37 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 slavery | compound |
| 38 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 supports | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 abuse | cc |
| 40 | abuse | abuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 slavery | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 threat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | research | past · progressive | the country | possible methods | february | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent method=Theme | |||
| 2 | protect | to-infinitive | the country not said here | children | regards | to Internet pornography | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | ||
| 3 | claim speech: other | gerund | the country not said here | pornography | online property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pornography=Topic | |||
| 4 | is a | present | researching | a threat | to children | tree rules | |||
| 5 | support | present | pornography | child slavery and abuse | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slavery=Stimulus |
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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