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title: Reykjavík city was designated as a UNESCO City of Literature in 2011… — Reykjavík · tree and pragmatics
description: Reykjavík city was designated as a UNESCO City of Literature in 2011 and joined then the UNESCO Creatives Cities network. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Reykjavík» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Reykjavík, sentence 272

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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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Reykjavík city was designated as a UNESCO City of Literature in 2011 and joined then the UNESCO Creatives Cities network.

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**What happens:** designate, join · **To what, where:** Reykjavík city, 2011, Cities network

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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: 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:272
# text = Reykjavík city was designated as a UNESCO City of Literature in 2011 and joined then the UNESCO Creatives Cities network.
1	Reykjavík	Reykjavík	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	designated	designate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	UNESCO	UNESCO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Literature	Literature	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	UNESCO	UNESCO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Creatives	Creative	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	compound	_	_
20	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	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 | **designate** | past · passive |  | Reykjavík city |  | 2011 |  | as a UNESCO City of Literature | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as city=Attribute |
| 2 | **join** | past |  | the UNESCO Creatives's Cities network |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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, «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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