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title: The nearest part of Continental Europe is mainland Norway, about 970… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: The nearest part of Continental Europe is mainland Norway, about 970 km away, while mainland North America is 2070 km away, at the northern tip of Labrador. Who acts: nearest part, mainland. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iceland, sentence 129

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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 nearest part of Continental Europe is mainland Norway, about 970 km away, while mainland North America is 2070 km away, at the northern tip of Labrador.

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**Who acts:** nearest part, mainland · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mainland, 2070 km

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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 (nearest part, mainland), 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:129
# text = The nearest part of Continental Europe is mainland Norway, about 970 km away, while mainland North America is 2070 km away, at the northern tip of Labrador.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Continental	continental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	970	970	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	2070	2070	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Labrador	Labrador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 nearest part of Continental Europe | mainland and 970 km and 2070 km and the northern tip of Labrador |  |  |  | Norway *appos*; 970 km *conj*; the northern tip of Labrador *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | mainland | 2070 km |  |  |  | away *property* | 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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