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title: In October 2008, the Icelandic parliament passed emergency legislati… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: In October 2008, the Icelandic parliament passed emergency legislation to minimise the impact of the financial crisis. Who acts: Icelandic parliament. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iceland, sentence 321

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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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In October 2008, the Icelandic parliament passed emergency legislation to minimise the impact of the financial crisis.

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**Who acts:** Icelandic parliament · **What happens:** pass, minimise, impact · **To what, where:** emergency legislation, impact, financial crisis

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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 (Icelandic parliament), 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:321
# text = In October 2008, the Icelandic parliament passed emergency legislation to minimise the impact of the financial crisis.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Icelandic	icelandic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	legislation	legislation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	minimise	minimise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	impact	impact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	financial	financial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | the Icelandic parliament | emergency legislation |  |  | october |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme legislation=Trajectory |
| 2 | **minimise** | to-infinitive | the Icelandic parliament *not said here* | the impact of the financial crisis |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **impact** |  |  | the financial crisis |  |  |  |  | nom impact «event 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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