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title: For both the European and the world championships, Iceland was the s… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: For both the European and the world championships, Iceland was the smallest nation in terms of population to qualify at the time. Who acts: Iceland. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iceland, sentence 602

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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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For both the European and the world championships, Iceland was the smallest nation in terms of population to qualify at the time.

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**Who acts:** Iceland · **What happens:** be, qualify, term · **To what, where:** smallest nation, terms, population

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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 (Iceland), 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:602
# text = For both the European and the world championships, Iceland was the smallest nation in terms of population to qualify at the time.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc:preconj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	championships	championship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	qualify	qualify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Iceland | the smallest nation |  | terms of population |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **qualify** | to-infinitive | Iceland *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **term** |  |  | population |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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