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title: Swedish Viking explorer Garðar Svavarsson was the first to circumnav… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: Swedish Viking explorer Garðar Svavarsson was the first to circumnavigate Iceland in 870, and established that it was an island. Who acts: Garðar, explorer. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iceland, sentence 36

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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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Swedish Viking explorer Garðar Svavarsson was the first to circumnavigate Iceland in 870, and established that it was an island.

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**Who acts:** Garðar, explorer · **What happens:** be, circumnavigate, establish · **To what, where:** Iceland, 870, island

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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 (Garðar, explorer), 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:36
# text = Swedish Viking explorer Garðar Svavarsson was the first to circumnavigate Iceland in 870, and established that it was an island.
1	Swedish	Swedish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Viking	Viking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	explorer	explorer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Garðar	Garðar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	Svavarsson	Svavarsson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	circumnavigate	circumnavigate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	870	870	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Garðar  Swedish Viking explorer |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **circumnavigate** | to-infinitive |  | Iceland |  | 870 |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **establish** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is a** | past | explorer | a island |  |  |  |  | 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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