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title: The Archdiocese of Nidaros was created in 1152 and attempted to cont… — Norway · tree and pragmatics
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# Norway, sentence 61

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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 Archdiocese of Nidaros was created in 1152 and attempted to control the appointment of kings.

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**What happens:** create, attempt, control · **To what, where:** Archdiocese, 1152, appointment

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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: 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:61
# text = The Archdiocese of Nidaros was created in 1152 and attempted to control the appointment of kings.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Archdiocese	Archdiocese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Nidaros	Nidaros	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	created	create	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1152	1152	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	control	control	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	appointment	appointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **create** | past · passive |  | the Archdiocese of Nidaros |  | 1152 |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **attempt** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **control** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the appointment of kings |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appointment=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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