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title: Singer-songwriter Björk received international acclaim for her starr… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: Singer-songwriter Björk received international acclaim for her starring role in the Danish musical drama Dancer in the Dark, directed by Lars von Trier, in which she plays Selma Ježková, a factory worker who struggles to pay for her son's eye operation. Who acts: Singer songwriter, songwriter, facto
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# Iceland, sentence 556

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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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Singer-songwriter Björk received international acclaim for her starring role in the Danish musical drama Dancer in the Dark, directed by Lars von Trier, in which she plays Selma Ježková, a factory worker who struggles to pay for her son's eye operation.

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**Who acts:** Singer songwriter, songwriter, factory worker, son · **What happens:** receive, star, direct, play, struggle, pay · **To what, where:** international acclaim, Selma

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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 (Singer songwriter, songwriter, factory worker, son), 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:556
# text = Singer-songwriter Björk received international acclaim for her starring role in the Danish musical drama Dancer in the Dark, directed by Lars von Trier, in which she plays Selma Ježková, a factory worker who struggles to pay for her son's eye operation.
1	Singer	Singer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	songwriter	songwriter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Björk	Björk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	acclaim	acclaim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	starring	star	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	drama	drama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	Dancer	Dancer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Dark	Dark	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	directed	direct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Lars	Lar	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	obl:agent	_	_
25	von	von	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Trier	Trier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
32	Selma	Selma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	Ježková	Ježková	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	struggles	struggle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
43	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	's	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
46	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | Singer songwriter | international acclaim |  |  |  | for songwriter's starring role in the Danish musical drama | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acclaim=Theme |
| 2 | **star** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **direct** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Lars von Trier *obl:agent* | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **play** | present | songwriter | Selma |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent selma=Theme |
| 5 | **struggle** | present | a factory worker |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pay** | to-infinitive | a factory worker *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for songwriter's son's eye operation | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for operation=Theme |
| 7 | **operate** |  | songwriter's son |  |  |  |  |  | nom operation «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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