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title: Iceland was the neutral host of the historic 1986 Reagan–Gorbachev s… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: Iceland was the neutral host of the historic 1986 Reagan–Gorbachev summit in Reykjavík, which set the stage for the end of the Cold War. Who acts: Iceland, Gorbachev summit. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iceland, sentence 283

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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 was the neutral host of the historic 1986 Reagan–Gorbachev summit in Reykjavík, which set the stage for the end of the Cold War.

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**Who acts:** Iceland, Gorbachev summit · **What happens:** be, set · **To what, where:** neutral host, stage

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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, Gorbachev summit), 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:283
# text = Iceland was the neutral host of the historic 1986 Reagan–Gorbachev summit in Reykjavík, which set the stage for the end of the Cold War.
1	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	neutral	neutral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
9	1986	1986	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	list	_	_
10	Reagan	Reagan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Gorbachev	Gorbachev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Reykjavík	Reykjavík	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Cold	Cold	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Iceland | the neutral host |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | past | Gorbachev summit in Reykjavík | the stage |  |  | for the end of the Cold War |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent stage=Patient for end=Beneficiary |

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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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