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title: Reykjavík is by far the most populous municipality, about four times… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: Reykjavík is by far the most populous municipality, about four times more populous than Kópavogur, the second largest, which is itself a suburb of Reykjavík. Who acts: Reykjavík. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iceland, sentence 265

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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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Reykjavík is by far the most populous municipality, about four times more populous than Kópavogur, the second largest, which is itself a suburb of Reykjavík.

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**Who acts:** Reykjavík · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** populous municipality, populous

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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 (Reykjavík), 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:265
# text = Reykjavík is by far the most populous municipality, about four times more populous than Kópavogur, the second largest, which is itself a suburb of Reykjavík.
1	Reykjavík	Reykjavík	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	populous	populous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	municipality	municipality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	populous	populace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Kópavogur	Kópavogur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	suburb	suburb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Reykjavík	Reykjavík	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	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 | Reykjavík | the populous municipality |  |  |  | the second largest  a suburb of Reykjavík *nmod*; more populous than Kópavogur *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | populous *= populace* |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | 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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