Norway, sentence 152
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.
Norwegian armed forces in the north launched an offensive against the German forces in the Battles of Narvik, but were forced to surrender on 10 June after losing British support which had been diverted to France during the German invasion of France.
Who acts: Norwegian armed forces · What happens: launch, force, surrender, lose, divert, invade · To what, where: offensive, British support, France
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 (Norwegian armed forces), 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 | Norwegian | Norwegian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 forces | amod |
| 2 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 forces | amod |
| 3 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 launched | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 north | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 north | det |
| 6 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forces | nmod |
| 7 | launched | launch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 offensive | det |
| 9 | offensive | offensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 launched | obj |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 forces | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forces | det |
| 12 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 forces | amod |
| 13 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 offensive | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Battles | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Battles | det |
| 16 | Battles | Battle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 forces | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Narvik | case |
| 18 | Narvik | Narvik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Battles | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 forced | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 forced | cc |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 forced | aux:pass |
| 22 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 launched | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 surrender | mark |
| 24 | surrender | surrender | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 forced | xcomp |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 June | case |
| 26 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 June | nummod |
| 27 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 surrender | obl |
| 28 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 29 losing | mark |
| 29 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 surrender | advcl |
| 30 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 support | amod |
| 31 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 losing | obj |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 diverted | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 diverted | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 diverted | aux:pass |
| 35 | diverted | divert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 support | acl:relcl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 France | case |
| 37 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 diverted | obl |
| 38 | during | during | ADP | _ | 41 invasion | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 invasion | det |
| 40 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 invasion | amod |
| 41 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 diverted | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 France | case |
| 43 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 invasion | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 launched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | launch | past | Norwegian armed forces in the north | a offensive against the German forces in the Battles of Narvik | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offensive=Theme | ||||
| 2 | force | past · passive | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | surrender | to-infinitive | june | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lose | gerund | British support | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | divert | past · perfect · passive | British support | France | during the German invasion of France | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | invade | France | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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