--- title: In February 2013 the country (ministry of the interior) was research… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics description: In February 2013 the country (ministry of the interior) was researching possible methods to protect children in regards to Internet pornography, claiming that pornography online is a threat to children as it supports child slavery and abuse. Who acts: country, researching, pornography. 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In February 2013 the country (ministry of the interior) was researching possible methods to protect children in regards to Internet pornography, claiming that pornography online is a threat to children as it supports child slavery and abuse. **Who acts:** country, researching, pornography · **What happens:** research, protect, claim, be, support · **To what, where:** possible methods, children, regards, pornography, threat, child slavery 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 (country, researching, pornography), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:571 # text = In February 2013 the country (ministry of the interior) was researching possible methods to protect children in regards to Internet pornography, claiming that pornography online is a threat to children as it supports child slavery and abuse. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 February February PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 3 2013 2013 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ministry ministry NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 interior interior NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 researching research VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 csubj _ _ 14 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 methods method NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 18 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 regards regards NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 17 obl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 Internet internet NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 pornography pornography NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 claiming claim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 pornography pornography NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 online online ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 threat threat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 supports support VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 37 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 slavery slavery NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 abuse abuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **research** | past · progressive | the country | possible methods | | | february | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent method=Theme | | 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive | the country *not said here* | | children | regards | | to Internet pornography | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | | 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | gerund | the country *not said here* | pornography | | | | online *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pornography=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | researching | a threat | | | | to children | tree rules | | 5 | **support** | present | pornography | child slavery and abuse | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slavery=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 570](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iceland/570/) - next →: [sentence 572](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iceland/572/) - ↑ back to [Iceland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Iceland/)