Iceland, sentence 589
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.
Its potency has earned it the nickname svarti dauði ("Black Death").
Who acts: potency · What happens: earn · To what, where: variant
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 (potency), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 potency | nmod:poss |
| 2 | potency | potency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 earned | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 earned | aux |
| 4 | earned | earn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 earned | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nickname | det |
| 7 | nickname | nickname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 earned | obj |
| 8 | svarti | svarti | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 earned | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | dauði | dauði | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 svarti | flat:foreign |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 Death | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Death | punct |
| 12 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Death | amod |
| 13 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 svarti | appos |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Death | punct |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 Death | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 earned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn | present · perfect | variant's potency | variant | svarti obl:unmarked; the nickname obj | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary nickname=Theme |
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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