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title: The Kingdom of Denmark is not a federation, but a concept encompassi… — Danish Realm · tree and pragmatics
description: The Kingdom of Denmark is not a federation, but a concept encompassing the three autonomous legal systems of Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, united under its monarch. Who acts: Kingdom, concept. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Danish Realm» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Danish Realm, sentence 4

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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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The Kingdom of Denmark is not a federation, but a concept encompassing the three autonomous legal systems of Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, united under its monarch.

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**Who acts:** Kingdom, concept · **What happens:** not be, encompass, be · **To what, where:** federation, three autonomous legal systems, monarch

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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 (Kingdom, concept), 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:4
# text = The Kingdom of Denmark is not a federation, but a concept encompassing the three autonomous legal systems of Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, united under its monarch.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	federation	federation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	concept	concept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	encompassing	encompass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
16	autonomous	autonomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	systems	system	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Faroe	Faroe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	united	united	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
29	under	under	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | the Kingdom of Denmark | a federation |  |  |  | a concept *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **encompass** | gerund | a concept *not said here* | the three autonomous legal systems of Denmark and the Faroe Islands and Greenland |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot system=Theme |
| 3 | **be** |  | the Kingdom of Denmark *not said here* |  |  | Kingdom's monarch |  |  | tree rules |

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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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