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title: A month later, British armed forces conducted Operation Fork, the in… — Iceland · tree and pragmatics
description: A month later, British armed forces conducted Operation Fork, the invasion and occupation of the country, violating Icelandic neutrality. Who acts: British armed forces. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iceland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Iceland, sentence 88

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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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A month later, British armed forces conducted Operation Fork, the invasion and occupation of the country, violating Icelandic neutrality.

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**Who acts:** British armed forces · **What happens:** conduct, violate, occupy · **To what, where:** Operation Fork, Icelandic neutrality, country

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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 (British armed forces), 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:88
# text = A month later, British armed forces conducted Operation Fork, the invasion and occupation of the country, violating Icelandic neutrality.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Operation	Operation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Fork	Fork	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	violating	violate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
21	Icelandic	icelandic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	neutrality	neutrality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | past | British armed forces | Operation Fork |  |  |  | late *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fork=Theme |
| 2 | **violate** | gerund | British armed forces *not said here* | Icelandic neutrality |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **occupy** |  |  | the country |  |  |  |  | nom occupation «act 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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