--- title: Greenland today belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark, but in 1337, when… — Islands, seas and lakes · tree and pragmatics description: Greenland today belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark, but in 1337, when EU5 starts, its Norse settlers and Iceland were under Norway, which joined Denmark in the Kalmar Union only in 1397. Who acts: Greenland, EU5, Norse settlers, Norway. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Greenland, EU5, Norse settlers, Norway), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:006-islands-seas-and-lakes.lesson:17 # text = Greenland today belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark, but in 1337, when EU5 starts, its Norse settlers and Iceland were under Norway, which joined Denmark in the Kalmar Union only in 1397. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 006-islands-seas-and-lakes.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Greenland Greenland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 3 belongs belong VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Kingdom Kingdom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Denmark Denmark PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 1337 1337 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 EU5 EU5 PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 Norse norse ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 settlers settler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 Iceland Iceland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 under under ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Norway Norway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 Denmark Denmark PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 Kalmar Kalmar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 Union Union PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 1397 1397 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **belong** | present | Greenland | | | 1337 | today | to the Kingdom of Denmark | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **start** | present | EU5 | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | past | Kingdom's Norse settlers and Iceland | | | Norway | | | tree rules | | 4 | **join** | past | Norway | Denmark | | the Kalmar Union | | in 1397 | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent denmark=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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:geography:006-islands-seas-and-lakes.lesson:17`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Islands, seas and lakes, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/16/) - next →: [Europe: countries and capitals, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/7-europe-countries-and-capitals/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/)