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title: However, the appointment is usually negotiated by the leaders of the… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the appointment is usually negotiated by the leaders of the political parties, who decide amongst themselves which parties can form the cabinet and how to distribute its seats, as long as it has majority support in the Althing. Who acts: leaders, political parties, cabinet. A sentence of Wi
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# Iceland, sentence 244

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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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However, the appointment is usually negotiated by the leaders of the political parties, who decide amongst themselves which parties can form the cabinet and how to distribute its seats, as long as it has majority support in the Althing.

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**Who acts:** leaders, political parties, cabinet · **What happens:** negotiate, decide, form, distribute, have · **To what, where:** appointment, parties, cabinet, seats, majority support, Althing

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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 (leaders, political parties, cabinet), 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:244
# text = However, the appointment is usually negotiated by the leaders of the political parties, who decide amongst themselves which parties can form the cabinet and how to distribute its seats, as long as it has majority support in the Althing.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	appointment	appointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	negotiated	negotiate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	decide	decide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obl	_	_
20	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	21	det	_	_
21	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	form	form	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	distribute	distribute	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
38	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Althing	Althing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **negotiate** | present · passive | the leaders of the political parties | the appointment |  |  |  | however, usually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **decide** | present | the political parties | which parties |  |  |  | amongst leaders *= leader* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent party=Topic |
| 3 | **form** | can |  | the cabinet |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cabinet=Theme |
| 4 | **distribute** | to-infinitive |  | cabinet's seats |  |  |  | long *property* | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent seat=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | present | cabinet | majority support |  | the Althing |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=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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