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title: The original population of Iceland was of Norse and Gaelic origin wh… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: The original population of Iceland was of Norse and Gaelic origin which is evident from literary evidence dating from the settlement period as well as from later scientific studies such as blood type and genetic analyses. Who acts: original population, Norse origin. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Icelan
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# Iceland, sentence 399

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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 original population of Iceland was of Norse and Gaelic origin which is evident from literary evidence dating from the settlement period as well as from later scientific studies such as blood type and genetic analyses.

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**Who acts:** original population, Norse origin · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** literary evidence dating

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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 (original population, Norse origin), 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:399
# text = The original population of Iceland was of Norse and Gaelic origin which is evident from literary evidence dating from the settlement period as well as from later scientific studies such as blood type and genetic analyses.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Norse	norse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	evident	evident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	dating	dating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	29	cc	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	fixed	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	studies	study	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
30	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	33	case	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	genetic	genetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	analyses	analysis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the original population of Iceland |  |  |  |  | of Norse origin | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Norse origin |  |  | literary evidence dating from the settlement period as scientific studies such blood type and genetic analyses |  | evident *property* | 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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