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title: After the 1994 referendum, Norway maintained its membership in the E… — Norway · tree and pragmatics
description: After the 1994 referendum, Norway maintained its membership in the European Economic Area (EEA), granting the country access to the internal market of the Union, on the condition that Norway implements the Union's pieces of legislation which are deemed relevant. Who acts: Norway, that. A sentence of
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# Norway, sentence 337

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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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After the 1994 referendum, Norway maintained its membership in the European Economic Area (EEA), granting the country access to the internal market of the Union, on the condition that Norway implements the Union's pieces of legislation which are deemed relevant.

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**Who acts:** Norway, that · **What happens:** maintain, grant, implement, deem, market · **To what, where:** membership, European Economic Area, country access, condition, pieces, Union

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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 (Norway, that), 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:337
# text = After the 1994 referendum, Norway maintained its membership in the European Economic Area (EEA), granting the country access to the internal market of the Union, on the condition that Norway implements the Union's pieces of legislation which are deemed relevant.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	1994	1994	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	referendum	referendum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	maintained	maintain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	membership	membership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	Economic	Economic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Area	Area	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	EEA	EEA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	granting	grant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	internal	internal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	implements	implement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	legislation	legislation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	deemed	deem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl:relcl	_	_
46	relevant	relevant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **maintain** | past | Norway | referendum's membership |  | the European Economic Area | after the 1994 referendum |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent membership=Theme |
| 2 | **grant** | gerund | Norway *not said here* | the country access |  | the condition |  | to the internal market of the Union *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent access=Theme to market=Goal |
| 3 | **implement** |  | that | the Union's pieces of legislation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **deem** | present · passive |  | the Union's pieces of legislation |  |  |  | relevant *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Attribute |
| 5 | **market** |  |  | the Union |  |  |  |  | nom market «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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