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title: The population of the island is believed to have varied from 40,000… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: The population of the island is believed to have varied from 40,000 to 60,000 in the period ranging from initial settlement until the mid-19th century. Who acts: period. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iceland, sentence 404

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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 population of the island is believed to have varied from 40,000 to 60,000 in the period ranging from initial settlement until the mid-19th century.

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**Who acts:** period · **What happens:** believe, vary, range · **To what, where:** population, 40,000, initial settlement

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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 (period), 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:404
# text = The population of the island is believed to have varied from 40,000 to 60,000 in the period ranging from initial settlement until the mid-19th century.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	varied	vary	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	xcomp	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	40,000	40000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	60,000	60000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	ranging	range	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	initial	initial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	until	until	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	mid-19th	mid-19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	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 | **believe** | present · passive |  | the population of the island |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vary** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  | 40,000 to 60,000 |  | in the period | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute PP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Patient from 40000=Intial\_State in period=Attribute |
| 3 | **range** | gerund | the period *not said here* |  |  | initial settlement | century |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from settlement=Location |

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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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