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title: In 1349, the Black Death killed between 50% and 60% of Norway's popu… — Norway · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1349, the Black Death killed between 50% and 60% of Norway's population and led to a period of social and economic decline. Who acts: Black Death. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Norway» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Norway, sentence 88

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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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In 1349, the Black Death killed between 50% and 60% of Norway's population and led to a period of social and economic decline.

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**Who acts:** Black Death · **What happens:** kill, lead · **To what, where:** 1349

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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 (Black Death), 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:88
# text = In 1349, the Black Death killed between 50% and 60% of Norway's population and led to a period of social and economic decline.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1349	1349	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	decline	decline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past | the Black Death |  |  | 1349 |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lead** | past | the Black Death *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a period of social decline | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to period=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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