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title: Norway previously had a state church, the Lutheran Church of Norway. — Norway · tree and pragmatics
description: Norway previously had a state church, the Lutheran Church of Norway. Who acts: Norway. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Norway» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Norway, sentence 479

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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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Norway previously had a state church, the Lutheran Church of Norway.

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**Who acts:** Norway · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** state church

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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), 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:479
# text = Norway previously had a state church, the Lutheran Church of Norway.
1	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Lutheran	Lutheran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Norway | a state church |  |  |  | previously *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=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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