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description: With regard to the extent Rigsdagen was allowed to delegate its legislative power under section 2, Meyers argued that more powers could be delegated to the Faroe Islands than other parts of the country, due to its special history. Who acts: Meyers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Danish Realm» with its d
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# Danish Realm, sentence 80

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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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With regard to the extent Rigsdagen was allowed to delegate its legislative power under section 2, Meyers argued that more powers could be delegated to the Faroe Islands than other parts of the country, due to its special history.

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**Who acts:** Meyers · **What happens:** allow, delegate, argue · **To what, where:** legislative power, section, more powers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Meyers), 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:80
# text = With regard to the extent Rigsdagen was allowed to delegate its legislative power under section 2, Meyers argued that more powers could be delegated to the Faroe Islands than other parts of the country, due to its special history.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	Rigsdagen	Rigsdagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	delegate	delegate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	legislative	legislative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	section	section	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Meyers	Meyers	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	argued	argue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	delegated	delegate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Faroe	Faroe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	41	case	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	fixed	_	_
39	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with regard to the extent | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **delegate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | extent's legislative power |  | section |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | past | Meyers |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **delegate** | could · passive |  | more powers |  |  |  | to the Faroe Islands; than other parts of the country and country's special history | 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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