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title: The Financial Supervisory Authority of Iceland used the permission g… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: The Financial Supervisory Authority of Iceland used the permission granted by the emergency legislation to take over the domestic operations of the three largest banks. Who acts: Supervisory Authority. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iceland, sentence 322

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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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The Financial Supervisory Authority of Iceland used the permission granted by the emergency legislation to take over the domestic operations of the three largest banks.

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**Who acts:** Supervisory Authority · **What happens:** use, grant, take over, operate · **To what, where:** permission, domestic operations, three largest banks

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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 (Supervisory Authority), 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:322
# text = The Financial Supervisory Authority of Iceland used the permission granted by the emergency legislation to take over the domestic operations of the three largest banks.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Financial	Financial	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Supervisory	Supervisory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Authority	Authority	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	legislation	legislation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	operations	operation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | the Supervisory Authority of Iceland | the permission |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient |
| 2 | **grant** | participle |  | the permission *not said here* |  |  |  | by the emergency legislation | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take over** | to-infinitive | the Supervisory Authority of Iceland *not said here* | the domestic operations of the three largest banks |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Theme |
| 4 | **operate** |  |  | the three largest banks |  |  |  |  | nom operation «state 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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