Norway, sentence 117
From Wikipedia, «Norway», 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.
As Sweden's military was not strong enough to defeat the Norwegian forces outright, and Norway's treasury was not large enough to support a protracted war, and as British and Russian navies blockaded the Norwegian coast, the belligerents were forced to negotiate the Convention of Moss.
Who acts: treasury, British navies, belligerents · What happens: not be, defeat, support, protract, blockade, force · To what, where: Norwegian forces, protracted war, Norwegian coast, belligerents, Convention
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Norway». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treasury, British navies, belligerents), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 military | case |
| 2 | Sweden | Sweden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 military | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Sweden | case |
| 4 | military | military | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strong | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 strong | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 strong | advmod |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 strong | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 defeat | mark |
| 10 | defeat | defeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 strong | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forces | det |
| 12 | Norwegian | Norwegian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 forces | amod |
| 13 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 defeat | obj |
| 14 | outright | outright | ADV | _ | 10 defeat | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 large | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 large | cc |
| 17 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 treasury | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Norway | case |
| 19 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 large | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 large | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 large | advmod |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 strong | parataxis |
| 23 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 22 large | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 support | mark |
| 25 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 large | advcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 war | det |
| 27 | protracted | protract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 war | amod |
| 28 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 support | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 blockaded | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 blockaded | cc |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 navies | case |
| 32 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 navies | amod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Russian | cc |
| 34 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 British | conj |
| 35 | navies | navy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 blockaded | nsubj |
| 36 | blockaded | blockade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 strong | parataxis |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 coast | det |
| 38 | Norwegian | Norwegian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 coast | amod |
| 39 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 blockaded | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 forced | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 belligerents | det |
| 42 | belligerents | belligerent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 forced | aux:pass |
| 44 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 blockaded | parataxis |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 negotiate | mark |
| 46 | negotiate | negotiate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 forced | xcomp |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Convention | det |
| 48 | Convention | Convention | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 negotiate | obj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 Moss | case |
| 50 | Moss | Moss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Convention | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | as Sweden's military; enough, strong property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | defeat | to-infinitive | the Norwegian forces | outright property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | Norway's treasury | enough, large property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | support | to-infinitive | Norway's treasury not said here | a protracted war | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer war=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | protract | participle | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | blockade | past | British navies | the Norwegian coast | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme coast=Destination | ||||
| 7 | force | past · passive | the belligerents | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | negotiate | to-infinitive | the belligerents not said here | the Convention of Moss | 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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