--- title: Norwegian armed forces in the north launched an offensive against th… — Norway · tree and pragmatics description: Norwegian armed forces in the north launched an offensive against the German forces in the Battles of Narvik, but were forced to surrender on 10 June after losing British support which had been diverted to France during the German invasion of France. Who acts: Norwegian armed forces. 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Norwegian armed forces in the north launched an offensive against the German forces in the Battles of Narvik, but were forced to surrender on 10 June after losing British support which had been diverted to France during the German invasion of France. **Who acts:** Norwegian armed forces · **What happens:** launch, force, surrender, lose, divert, invade · **To what, where:** offensive, British support, France This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Norway». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Norwegian armed forces), 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:Norway:152 # text = Norwegian armed forces in the north launched an offensive against the German forces in the Battles of Narvik, but were forced to surrender on 10 June after losing British support which had been diverted to France during the German invasion of France. 1 Norwegian Norwegian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 armed armed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 forces force NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 launched launch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 offensive offensive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obj _ _ 10 against against ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 German German ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 forces force NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Battles Battle PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Narvik Narvik PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 surrender surrender VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 after after SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 30 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 support support NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 diverted divert VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 during during ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 German German ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 invasion invasion NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **launch** | past | Norwegian armed forces in the north | a offensive against the German forces in the Battles of Narvik | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offensive=Theme | | 2 | **force** | past · passive | | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: clause=Topic | | 3 | **surrender** | to-infinitive | | | | | june | | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **lose** | gerund | | British support | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=Eventuality | | 5 | **divert** | past · perfect · passive | | British support | France | | during the German invasion of France | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 6 | **invade** | | | France | | | | | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient | 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, «Norway», 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 151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Norway/151/) - next →: [sentence 153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Norway/153/) - ↑ back to [Norway](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Norway/)