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title: It was led by the Norwegian shipping company Nortraship under the Al… — Norway · tree and pragmatics
description: It was led by the Norwegian shipping company Nortraship under the Allies throughout the war and took part in every war operation from the evacuation of Dunkirk to the Normandy landings. Who acts: Norwegian shipping company. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Norway» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Norway, sentence 165

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From Wikipedia, [«Norway»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway), 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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It was led by the Norwegian shipping company Nortraship under the Allies throughout the war and took part in every war operation from the evacuation of Dunkirk to the Normandy landings.

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**Who acts:** Norwegian shipping company · **What happens:** lead, take, evacuate · **To what, where:** role, war, part, war operation, Dunkirk

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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 shipping company), 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:Norway:165
# text = It was led by the Norwegian shipping company Nortraship under the Allies throughout the war and took part in every war operation from the evacuation of Dunkirk to the Normandy landings.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Norwegian	Norwegian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	shipping	shipping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	Nortraship	Nortraship	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Allies	Ally	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
21	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	evacuation	evacuation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Dunkirk	Dunkirk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Normandy	Normandy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	landings	landing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past · passive | the Norwegian shipping company under the Allies | role |  | the war |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme throughout war=Destination |
| 2 | **take** | past | the Norwegian shipping company under the Allies *not said here* | part |  | every war operation |  | from the evacuation of Dunkirk; to the Normandy landings | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent part=Theme from evacuation=Initial\_Location to landing=Destination |
| 3 | **evacuate** |  |  | Dunkirk |  |  |  |  | nom evacuation «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, «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.

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