Norway, sentence 278
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.
The Council approves all of the monarch's actions as head of state.
Who acts: Council, monarch · What happens: approve, act · To what, where: all
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 (Council, monarch), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Council | det |
| 2 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 approves | nsubj |
| 3 | approves | approve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 approves | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 actions | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 monarch | det |
| 7 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 actions | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 monarch | case |
| 9 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 all | nmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 actions | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 state | case |
| 13 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 approves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approve | present | the Council | all of the monarch's actions as head of state | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | act | the monarch | as head of state | nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent as=obl |
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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