Reykjavík, sentence 41
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.
There was no armed resistance, and taxi and truck drivers even assisted the invasion force, which initially had no motor vehicles.
Who acts: armed resistance, taxi drivers · What happens: be, assist, have · To what, where: invasion force
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 (armed resistance, taxi drivers), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 resistance | det |
| 4 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 resistance | amod |
| 5 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 assisted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 assisted | cc |
| 8 | taxi | taxi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drivers | compound |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 truck | cc |
| 10 | truck | truck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taxi | conj |
| 11 | drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 assisted | nsubj |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 assisted | advmod |
| 13 | assisted | assist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 force | det |
| 15 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 force | compound |
| 16 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 assisted | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 had | obj |
| 19 | initially | initially | ADV | _ | 20 had | advmod |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 force | acl:relcl |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 vehicles | det |
| 22 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 vehicles | compound |
| 23 | vehicles | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 had | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no armed resistance | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | assist | past | taxi drivers | the invasion force | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the invasion force | no motor vehicles obj; initially property | tree rules |
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.
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