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title: The period of these early settlements coincided with the Medieval Wa… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: The period of these early settlements coincided with the Medieval Warm Period, when temperatures were similar to those of the early 20th century. Who acts: period, temperatures. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iceland, sentence 44

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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 period of these early settlements coincided with the Medieval Warm Period, when temperatures were similar to those of the early 20th century.

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**Who acts:** period, temperatures · **What happens:** coincide, be

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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, temperatures), 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:44
# text = The period of these early settlements coincided with the Medieval Warm Period, when temperatures were similar to those of the early 20th century.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	settlements	settlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	coincided	coincide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Medieval	medieval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
15	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **coincide** | past | the period of this early settlements |  |  |  |  | with the Medieval Warm Period | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with period=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | temperatures |  |  |  |  | to those of the early 20th century; similar *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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