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title: In the 17th and 18th centuries, Denmark imposed harsh trade restrict… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 17th and 18th centuries, Denmark imposed harsh trade restrictions on Iceland. Who acts: Denmark. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iceland, sentence 66

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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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In the 17th and 18th centuries, Denmark imposed harsh trade restrictions on Iceland.

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**Who acts:** Denmark · **What happens:** impose · **To what, where:** harsh trade restrictions, Iceland

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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 (Denmark), 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:66
# text = In the 17th and 18th centuries, Denmark imposed harsh trade restrictions on Iceland.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	17th	17th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	18th	18th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	3	conj	_	_
6	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	imposed	impose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	restrictions	restriction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **impose** | past | Denmark | harsh trade restrictions |  | Iceland | century |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent restriction=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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