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title: In 1814, Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden under the Treaty of Kiel, bu… — Danish Realm · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1814, Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden under the Treaty of Kiel, but kept control of the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. Who acts: Denmark. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Danish Realm» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Danish Realm, sentence 46

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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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In 1814, Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden under the Treaty of Kiel, but kept control of the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland.

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**Who acts:** Denmark · **What happens:** cede, keep · **To what, where:** Norway, Sweden, 1814, control

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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 (Denmark), 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:46
# text = In 1814, Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden under the Treaty of Kiel, but kept control of the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1814	1814	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ceded	cede	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Kiel	Kiel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Faroe	Faroe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cede** | past | Denmark | Norway | Sweden | 1814 |  | under the Treaty of Kiel | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent norway=Theme to sweden=Goal |
| 2 | **keep** | past | Denmark *not said here* | control of the Faroe Islands and Greenland |  |  |  | Iceland *obl* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme |

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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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