Reykjavík, sentence 266
From Wikipedia, «Reykjavík», 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.
Most of the country's writers live in the city, and it also provides the setting for the majority of contemporary Icelandic literature – a development that has gone hand in hand with the expansion of the city in the past 100 years or so.
Who acts: Most, country, development · What happens: live, provide, go, expand · To what, where: city, setting, hand
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Reykjavík». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most, country, development), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 live | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 writers | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 country | det |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 writers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 country | case |
| 6 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Most | nmod |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 city | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 live | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 provides | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 provides | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 provides | nsubj |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 provides | advmod |
| 15 | provides | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 live | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 setting | det |
| 17 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 provides | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 majority | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 majority | det |
| 20 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 setting | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 literature | case |
| 22 | contemporary | contemporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 literature | amod |
| 23 | Icelandic | icelandic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 literature | amod |
| 24 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 majority | nmod |
| 25 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 development | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 development | det |
| 27 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 setting | conj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 gone | nsubj |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 gone | aux |
| 30 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 development | acl:relcl |
| 31 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gone | xcomp |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 hand | case |
| 33 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gone | obl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 expansion | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 expansion | det |
| 36 | expansion | expansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gone | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 city | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 city | det |
| 39 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 expansion | nmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 past | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 past | det |
| 42 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gone | obl |
| 43 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 44 years | nummod |
| 44 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 gone | obl |
| 45 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 46 so | cc |
| 46 | so | so | ADV | _ | 44 years | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Most of the country's writers | the city | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location | ||||
| 2 | provide | present | country | the setting and a development | for the majority of contemporary Icelandic literature | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition setting=Theme for majority=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | go | present · perfect | a development | hand | hand | year | with the expansion of the city; in the past | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with expansion=Beneficiary | |
| 4 | expand | the city | nom expansion «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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Reykjavík», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Reykjavík/266/