Norway, sentence 629
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.
In the 20th century, three Norwegian novelists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson in 1903, Knut Hamsun for the book Markens grøde ("Growth of the Soil") in 1920, and Sigrid Undset (known for Kristin Lavransdatter) in 1928.
Who acts: Soil · What happens: award, know, grow · To what, where: three Norwegian novelists, 1920, Sigrid, 1928
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 (Soil), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 century | det |
| 3 | 20th | 20th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 century | amod |
| 4 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 awarded | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 century | punct |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 novelists | nummod |
| 7 | Norwegian | Norwegian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 novelists | amod |
| 8 | novelists | novelist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 awarded | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 awarded | aux:pass |
| 10 | awarded | award | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prize | det |
| 12 | Nobel | Nobel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Prize | compound |
| 13 | Prize | Prize | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 awarded | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Literature | case |
| 15 | Literature | Literature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Prize | nmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Bjørnson | punct |
| 17 | Bjørnstjerne | Bjørnstjerne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Bjørnson | compound |
| 18 | Bjørnson | Bjørnson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 awarded | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 1903 | case |
| 20 | 1903 | 1903 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 Bjørnson | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Hamsun | punct |
| 22 | Knut | Knut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Hamsun | compound |
| 23 | Hamsun | Hamsun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Bjørnson | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 book | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 book | det |
| 26 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Hamsun | nmod |
| 27 | Markens | Markens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Hamsun | flat |
| 28 | grøde | grøde | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Hamsun | list |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 Growth | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Growth | punct |
| 31 | Growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 grøde | appos |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Soil | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Soil | det |
| 34 | Soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Growth | nmod |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Growth | punct |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 Growth | punct |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 1920 | case |
| 38 | 1920 | 1920 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 awarded | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 known | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 known | cc |
| 41 | Sigrid | Sigrid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 known | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | Undset | Undset | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Sigrid | flat |
| 43 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 44 known | punct |
| 44 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 awarded | conj |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 Kristin | case |
| 46 | Kristin | Kristin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 known | obl |
| 47 | Lavransdatter | Lavransdatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Kristin | flat |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 44 known | punct |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 1928 | case |
| 50 | 1928 | 1928 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 44 known | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 awarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | award | past · passive | three Norwegian novelists | 1920 | century | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson in 1903 and Knut Hamsun for the book grøde obl; the Nobel Prize obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal prize=Theme | ||
| 2 | know | participle · passive | Sigrid | 1928 | for Kristin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | grow in a quote | the Soil | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=agent |
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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