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title: Previously, most foreign relations were undertaken exclusively by th… — Danish Realm · tree and pragmatics
description: Previously, most foreign relations were undertaken exclusively by the Government of Denmark on behalf of the entire realm, but more recently the Faroe Islands and Greenland have increased their role in foreign policy. Who acts: Government. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Danish Realm» with its dependency
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# Danish Realm, sentence 115

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From Wikipedia, [«Danish Realm»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_Realm), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Previously, most foreign relations were undertaken exclusively by the Government of Denmark on behalf of the entire realm, but more recently the Faroe Islands and Greenland have increased their role in foreign policy.

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**Who acts:** Government · **What happens:** undertake, increase · **To what, where:** most foreign relations, behalf, Faroe Islands, foreign policy

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Danish Realm». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Government), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Danish_Realm:115
# text = Previously, most foreign relations were undertaken exclusively by the Government of Denmark on behalf of the entire realm, but more recently the Faroe Islands and Greenland have increased their role in foreign policy.
1	Previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
4	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	undertaken	undertake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	behalf	behalf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Faroe	Faroe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	policy	policy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undertake** | past · passive | the Government of Denmark | most foreign relations |  | behalf of the entire realm |  | exclusively, previously *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **increase** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Faroe Islands and Greenland |  | foreign policy |  | islands's role *obj*; recently *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: subject=Patient role=Extent |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Danish Realm», 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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