Norway, sentence 165
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.
It was led by the Norwegian shipping company Nortraship under the Allies throughout the war and took part in every war operation from the evacuation of Dunkirk to the Normandy landings.
Who acts: Norwegian shipping company · What happens: lead, take, evacuate · To what, where: role, war, part, war operation, Dunkirk
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 shipping company), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | aux:pass |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 company | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 company | det |
| 6 | Norwegian | Norwegian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 company | amod |
| 7 | shipping | shipping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 company | compound |
| 8 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 9 | Nortraship | Nortraship | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 company | appos |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 Allies | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Allies | det |
| 12 | Allies | Ally | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 company | nmod |
| 13 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 15 war | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 war | det |
| 15 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 operation | case |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 operation | det |
| 21 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 operation | compound |
| 22 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 evacuation | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 evacuation | det |
| 25 | evacuation | evacuation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Dunkirk | case |
| 27 | Dunkirk | Dunkirk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 evacuation | nmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 landings | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 landings | det |
| 30 | Normandy | Normandy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 landings | compound |
| 31 | landings | landing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 took | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · passive | the Norwegian shipping company under the Allies | role | the war | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme throughout war=Destination | |||
| 2 | take | past | the Norwegian shipping company under the Allies not said here | part | every war operation | from the evacuation of Dunkirk; to the Normandy landings | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent part=Theme from evacuation=Initial_Location to landing=Destination | ||
| 3 | evacuate | Dunkirk | nom evacuation «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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