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title: Iceland's largest television stations are the state-run Sjónvarpið a… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: Iceland's largest television stations are the state-run Sjónvarpið and the privately owned Stöð 2 and SkjárEinn. Who acts: largest television stations. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iceland, sentence 541

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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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Iceland's largest television stations are the state-run Sjónvarpið and the privately owned Stöð 2 and SkjárEinn.

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**Who acts:** largest television stations · **What happens:** be, own · **To what, where:** state run, Stöð

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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 (largest television stations), 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:541
# text = Iceland's largest television stations are the state-run Sjónvarpið and the privately owned Stöð 2 and SkjárEinn.
1	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
4	television	television	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	stations	station	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	Sjónvarpið	Sjónvarpið	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	privately	privately	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	Stöð	Stöð	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	SkjárEinn	SkjárEinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Iceland's largest television stations | the state run |  |  |  | Sjónvarpið *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **own** | past | Iceland's largest television stations *not said here* | Stöð and SkjárEinn |  |  |  | privately *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot stöð=Theme |

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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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