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title: Public transportation is operated by Strætó bs. by a fleet of city b… — Reykjavík · tree and pragmatics
description: Public transportation is operated by Strætó bs. by a fleet of city buses serving Reykjavík and its surrounding towns. Who acts: Strætó bs, city buses. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Reykjavík» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Reykjavík, sentence 237

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From Wikipedia, [«Reykjavík»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjavík), 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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Public transportation is operated by Strætó bs. by a fleet of city buses serving Reykjavík and its surrounding towns.

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**Who acts:** Strætó bs, city buses · **What happens:** operate, serve · **To what, where:** Public transportation, Reykjavík

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Reykjavík». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Strætó bs, city buses), 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:Reykjavík:237
# text = Public transportation is operated by Strætó bs. by a fleet of city buses serving Reykjavík and its surrounding towns.
1	Public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	transportation	transportation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	operated	operate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Strætó	Strætó	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bs	b	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	Reykjavík	Reykjavík	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **operate** | present · passive | Strætó bs | Public transportation |  |  |  | by a fleet of city buses | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **serve** | gerund | city buses *not said here* | Reykjavík and transportation's surrounding towns |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reykjavík=Attribute |

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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, «Reykjavík», 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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