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title: Oil production did not provide net income until the early 1980s beca… — Norway · tree and pragmatics
description: Oil production did not provide net income until the early 1980s because of the large capital investment required. Who acts: Oil production. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Norway» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Norway, sentence 177

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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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Oil production did not provide net income until the early 1980s because of the large capital investment required.

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**Who acts:** Oil production · **What happens:** not provide, require · **To what, where:** net income, large capital investment

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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 (Oil production), 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:177
# text = Oil production did not provide net income until the early 1980s because of the large capital investment required.
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	net	net	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	until	until	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	1980s	1980s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	capital	capital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	investment	investment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **provide** | past · do-support | Oil production | net income |  |  | until the early 1980s |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition income=Theme |
| 2 | **require** | participle · passive |  | the large capital investment |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition |

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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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