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title: Due to climate change, Iceland is experiencing faster glacial retrea… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: Due to climate change, Iceland is experiencing faster glacial retreat, changing vegetation patterns, and shifting marine ecosystems. Who acts: Iceland. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iceland, sentence 176

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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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Due to climate change, Iceland is experiencing faster glacial retreat, changing vegetation patterns, and shifting marine ecosystems.

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**Who acts:** Iceland · **What happens:** experience, change, shift · **To what, where:** glacial retreat, vegetation patterns, marine ecosystems

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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:176
# text = Due to climate change, Iceland is experiencing faster glacial retreat, changing vegetation patterns, and shifting marine ecosystems.
1	Due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	experiencing	experience	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	glacial	glacial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	retreat	retreat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	vegetation	vegetation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	shifting	shift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
19	marine	marine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ecosystems	ecosystem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **experience** | present · progressive | Iceland | glacial retreat |  |  |  | due climate change | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer retreat=Stimulus |
| 2 | **change** | gerund | Iceland *not said here* | vegetation patterns |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient |
| 3 | **shift** | gerund | Iceland *not said here* | marine ecosystems |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer ecosystem=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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