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title: The dead were cremated, and their graves contained little goods. — Norway · tree and pragmatics
description: The dead were cremated, and their graves contained little goods. Who acts: graves. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Norway» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Norway, sentence 37

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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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The dead were cremated, and their graves contained little goods.

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**Who acts:** graves · **What happens:** cremate, contain · **To what, where:** dead, little goods

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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 (graves), 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:37
# text = The dead were cremated, and their graves contained little goods.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	cremated	cremate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cremate** | past · passive |  | the dead |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **contain** | past | monuments's graves | little goods |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot goods=Theme |

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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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