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title: During the occupation of Denmark in World War II, Iceland voted over… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: During the occupation of Denmark in World War II, Iceland voted overwhelmingly to become a republic in 1944, ending its remaining formal ties to Denmark. Who acts: Iceland. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iceland, sentence 16

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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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During the occupation of Denmark in World War II, Iceland voted overwhelmingly to become a republic in 1944, ending its remaining formal ties to Denmark.

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**Who acts:** Iceland · **What happens:** vote, become, end, occupy · **To what, where:** republic, 1944, remaining formal ties, Denmark

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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 (Iceland), 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:16
# text = During the occupation of Denmark in World War II, Iceland voted overwhelmingly to become a republic in 1944, ending its remaining formal ties to Denmark.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	voted	vote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	overwhelmingly	overwhelmingly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1944	1944	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	advcl	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	remaining	remaining	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	ties	tie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | past | Iceland |  |  |  | during the occupation of Denmark in World War | overwhelmingly *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **become** | to-infinitive | Iceland *not said here* | a republic |  |  |  | in 1944 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1944=Result |
| 3 | **end** | gerund | Iceland *not said here* | republic's remaining formal ties | Denmark |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality tie=Eventuality |
| 4 | **occupy** |  |  | Denmark in World War |  |  |  |  | nom occupation «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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