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title: A referendum on the resumption of European Union membership negotiat… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: A referendum on the resumption of European Union membership negotiations was held on 29 August 2026, with the No campaign winning with 52.8% of the vote, rejecting the restart of negotiations. Who acts: campaign. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iceland, sentence 273

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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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A referendum on the resumption of European Union membership negotiations was held on 29 August 2026, with the No campaign winning with 52.8% of the vote, rejecting the restart of negotiations.

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**Who acts:** campaign · **What happens:** hold, win, reject, resume · **To what, where:** referendum, 29, restart, Union membership negotiations

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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 (campaign), 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:273
# text = A referendum on the resumption of European Union membership negotiations was held on 29 August 2026, with the No campaign winning with 52.8% of the vote, rejecting the restart of negotiations.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	referendum	referendum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	resumption	resumption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	membership	membership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	negotiations	negotiation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
15	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
22	winning	win	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	52.8	52.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	rejecting	reject	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	restart	restart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	negotiations	negotiation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · passive |  | a referendum on the resumption of Union membership negotiations |  | 29  August |  | the campaign *parataxis* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on 29=Location |
| 2 | **win** | gerund | the campaign *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reject** | gerund | the campaign *not said here* | the restart of negotiations |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent restart=Theme |
| 4 | **resume** |  |  | Union membership negotiations |  |  |  |  | nom resumption «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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