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title: The main traditional sport in Iceland is Glíma, a form of wrestling… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: The main traditional sport in Iceland is Glíma, a form of wrestling thought to have originated in medieval times. Who acts: main traditional sport. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iceland, sentence 595

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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 main traditional sport in Iceland is Glíma, a form of wrestling thought to have originated in medieval times.

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**Who acts:** main traditional sport · **What happens:** be, think, originate · **To what, where:** Glíma, form

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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 (main traditional sport), 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:595
# text = The main traditional sport in Iceland is Glíma, a form of wrestling thought to have originated in medieval times.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	Glíma	Glíma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	wrestling	wrestle	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	originated	originate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	medieval	medieval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the main traditional sport in Iceland | Glíma |  |  |  | a form *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund · passive |  | a form *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: clause=Theme |
| 3 | **originate** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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