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title: Iceland ranks highly in international comparisons of national perfor… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
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# Iceland, sentence 24

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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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Iceland ranks highly in international comparisons of national performance, such as quality of life, education, protection of civil liberties, government transparency, and economic freedom.

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**Who acts:** Iceland · **What happens:** rank, compare, protect · **To what, where:** economic freedom, international comparisons, national performance, civil liberties

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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:24
# text = Iceland ranks highly in international comparisons of national performance, such as quality of life, education, protection of civil liberties, government transparency, and economic freedom.
1	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ranks	rank	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	comparisons	comparison	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	liberties	liberty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	transparency	transparency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rank** | present | Iceland | economic freedom |  | international comparisons of national performance and education and protection of civil liberties and government transparency |  | highly *property* | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **compare** |  |  | national performance and education and protection of civil liberties and government transparency |  |  |  |  | nom comparison «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **protect** |  |  | civil liberties |  |  |  |  | nom protection «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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