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title: Náttfari settled in what is now known as Náttfaravík, and he and his… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: Náttfari settled in what is now known as Náttfaravík, and he and his slaves became the first documented permanent residents of Iceland. Who acts: Náttfari. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iceland, sentence 39

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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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Náttfari settled in what is now known as Náttfaravík, and he and his slaves became the first documented permanent residents of Iceland.

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**Who acts:** Náttfari · **What happens:** settle, know, become, document · **To what, where:** first documented permanent residents

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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 (Náttfari), 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:39
# text = Náttfari settled in what is now known as Náttfaravík, and he and his slaves became the first documented permanent residents of Iceland.
1	Náttfari	Náttfari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Náttfaravík	Náttfaravík	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
19	documented	document	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
20	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	xcomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** | past | Náttfari |  |  |  |  | what *obl* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in what=Location |
| 2 | **know** | present · passive |  |  |  |  | now | as Náttfaravík | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as náttfaravík=Attribute |
| 3 | **become** | past | Náttfari | the first documented permanent residents of Iceland |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **document** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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