Finland, sentence 101
From Wikipedia, «Finland», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
For example, universal suffrage was virtually meaningless in practice, as the tsar did not have to approve any of the laws passed by the Finnish parliament.
Who acts: universal suffrage, tsar · What happens: be, not have, approve, pass · To what, where: practice, any, laws
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Finland». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (universal suffrage, tsar), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 example | case |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meaningless | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 example | punct |
| 4 | universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 suffrage | amod |
| 5 | suffrage | suffrage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meaningless | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 meaningless | cop |
| 7 | virtually | virtually | ADV | _ | 8 meaningless | advmod |
| 8 | meaningless | meaningless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 practice | case |
| 10 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meaningless | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tsar | det |
| 14 | tsar | tsar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 have | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 have | advmod |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 meaningless | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 approve | mark |
| 19 | approve | approve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 have | xcomp |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 approve | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 laws | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 laws | det |
| 23 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 any | nmod |
| 24 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 laws | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 parliament | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 parliament | det |
| 27 | Finnish | finnish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 parliament | amod |
| 28 | parliament | parliament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 passed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 meaningless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | universal suffrage | practice | for example; meaningless, virtually property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not have | past · do-support | the tsar | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | approve | to-infinitive | the tsar not said here | any of the laws | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | pass | participle | the laws not said here | by the Finnish parliament | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by parliament=Location |
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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