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title: The closest bodies of land in Europe are the Faroe Islands (420 km);… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: The closest bodies of land in Europe are the Faroe Islands (420 km); Jan Mayen Island (570 km); Shetland and the Outer Hebrides, both about 740 km; and the Scottish mainland and Orkney, both about 750 km. Who acts: closest bodies. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and prag
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# Iceland, sentence 128

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From Wikipedia, [«Iceland»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland), 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 closest bodies of land in Europe are the Faroe Islands (420 km); Jan Mayen Island (570 km); Shetland and the Outer Hebrides, both about 740 km; and the Scottish mainland and Orkney, both about 750 km.

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**Who acts:** closest bodies · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Faroe Islands

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Iceland». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (closest bodies), 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:Iceland:128
# text = The closest bodies of land in Europe are the Faroe Islands (420 km); Jan Mayen Island (570 km); Shetland and the Outer Hebrides, both about 740 km; and the Scottish mainland and Orkney, both about 750 km.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	closest	close	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Faroe	Faroe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	420	420	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Jan	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	Mayen	Mayen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	570	570	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Shetland	Shetland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Outer	Outer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Hebrides	Hebrides	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc:preconj	_	_
32	about	about	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	740	740	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	Orkney	orkney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc:preconj	_	_
44	about	about	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	750	750	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the closest bodies of land in Europe | the Faroe Islands and Jan |  |  |  | 420 km *appos*; Shetland and the Outer Hebrides both 740 km *appos*; the Scottish mainland and Orkney both 750 km *appos* | 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, «Iceland», 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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