--- title: In the 20th century, three Norwegian novelists were awarded the Nobe… — Norway · tree and pragmatics description: In the 20th century, three Norwegian novelists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson in 1903, Knut Hamsun for the book Markens grøde ("Growth of the Soil") in 1920, and Sigrid Undset (known for Kristin Lavransdatter) in 1928. Who acts: Soil. 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In the 20th century, three Norwegian novelists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson in 1903, Knut Hamsun for the book Markens grøde ("Growth of the Soil") in 1920, and Sigrid Undset (known for Kristin Lavransdatter) in 1928. **Who acts:** Soil · **What happens:** award, know, grow · **To what, where:** three Norwegian novelists, 1920, Sigrid, 1928 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 (Soil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:629 # text = In the 20th century, three Norwegian novelists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson in 1903, Knut Hamsun for the book Markens grøde ("Growth of the Soil") in 1920, and Sigrid Undset (known for Kristin Lavransdatter) in 1928. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 20th 20th ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 4 amod _ _ 4 century century NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 Norwegian Norwegian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 novelists novelist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 awarded award VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Nobel Nobel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Prize Prize PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Literature Literature PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnstjerne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Bjørnson Bjørnson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 1903 1903 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 Knut Knut PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Hamsun Hamsun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 Markens Markens PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 flat _ _ 28 grøde grøde NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 list _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 1920 1920 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 41 Sigrid Sigrid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 Undset Undset PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 flat _ _ 43 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 45 for for ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 Kristin Kristin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 47 Lavransdatter Lavransdatter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 44 punct _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 1928 1928 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **award** | past · passive | | three Norwegian novelists | | 1920 | century | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson in 1903 and Knut Hamsun for the book grøde *obl*; the Nobel Prize *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal prize=Theme | | 2 | **know** | participle · passive | | Sigrid | | 1928 | | for Kristin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | | 3 | **grow** *in a quote* | | the Soil | | | | | | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 628](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Norway/628/) - next →: [sentence 630](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Norway/630/) - ↑ back to [Norway](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Norway/)