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title: There are no railways in Iceland. — Reykjavík · tree and pragmatics
description: There are no railways in Iceland. Who acts: railways. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Reykjavík» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Reykjavík, sentence 247

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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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There are no railways in Iceland.

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**Who acts:** railways · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Iceland

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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 (railways), 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:247
# text = There are no railways in Iceland.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	railways	railway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | no railways |  |  | Iceland; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in iceland=Location |

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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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