Reykjavík, sentence 83
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.
Contrasting this, winter days are milder than anywhere in far southern Sweden and the vast majority of Denmark.
Who acts: Contrasting winter days · What happens: contrast, be · To what, where: this, southern Sweden
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 (Contrasting winter days), 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 | Contrasting | contrast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 days | compound |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Contrasting | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Contrasting | punct |
| 4 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 days | compound |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 milder | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 milder | cop |
| 7 | milder | mild | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 anywhere | case |
| 9 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 milder | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Sweden | case |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 Sweden | advmod |
| 12 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Sweden | amod |
| 13 | Sweden | Sweden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 milder | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 majority | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 majority | det |
| 16 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 majority | amod |
| 17 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Sweden | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Denmark | case |
| 19 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 majority | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 milder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contrast | gerund | this | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Contrasting winter days | southern Sweden and the vast majority of Denmark | mild 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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