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title: Large-scale construction projects in the east of Iceland (see Kárahn… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: Large-scale construction projects in the east of Iceland (see Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant) have also brought in many people whose stay is expected to be temporary. Who acts: construction projects, many people, stay. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iceland, sentence 416

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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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Large-scale construction projects in the east of Iceland (see Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant) have also brought in many people whose stay is expected to be temporary.

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**Who acts:** construction projects, many people, stay · **What happens:** see, bring, expect, be · **To what, where:** Kárahnjúkar, east, construction projects, stay

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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 (construction projects, many people, stay), 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:416
# text = Large-scale construction projects in the east of Iceland (see Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant) have also brought in many people whose stay is expected to be temporary.
1	Large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	projects	project	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
13	Kárahnjúkar	Kárahnjúkar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	Hydropower	Hydropower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	Plant	Plant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:agent	_	_
23	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	stay	stay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	temporary	temporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive | construction projects *not said here* | Kárahnjúkar |  | the east |  | of Iceland | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kárahnjúkar=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bring** | present · perfect · passive | many people | construction projects |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **expect** | present · passive |  | stay |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | stay *not said here* |  |  |  |  | temporary *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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