Reykjavík, sentence 63
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.
The hills of Öskjuhlíð and Skólavörðuholt appear to be the remains of former shield volcanoes which were active during the warm periods of the Ice Age.
Who acts: hills, former shield volcanoes · What happens: appear, be · To what, where: remains
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 (hills, former shield volcanoes), 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 hills | det |
| 2 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appear | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Öskjuhlíð | case |
| 4 | Öskjuhlíð | Öskjuhlíð | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hills | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Skólavörðuholt | cc |
| 6 | Skólavörðuholt | Skólavörðuholt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Öskjuhlíð | conj |
| 7 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 remains | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 remains | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 remains | det |
| 11 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 appear | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 volcanoes | case |
| 13 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 volcanoes | amod |
| 14 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 volcanoes | compound |
| 15 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 remains | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 active | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 active | cop |
| 18 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 volcanoes | acl:relcl |
| 19 | during | during | ADP | _ | 22 periods | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 periods | det |
| 21 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 periods | amod |
| 22 | periods | period | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 active | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Age | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Age | det |
| 25 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Age | compound |
| 26 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 periods | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | the hills of Öskjuhlíð and Skólavörðuholt | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the remains | of former shield volcanoes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | former shield volcanoes | during the warm periods of the Ice Age | active 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.
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