Finland, sentence 110
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.
Suddenly the right-wing parties in Finland began to reconsider their decision to block the transfer of supreme executive power from the Russian government to Finland when the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia.
Who acts: wing parties, Bolsheviks, parties · What happens: begin, reconsider, block, come, decide, transfer · To what, where: decision, transfer, Finland, Russian government, power, supreme executive power
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 (wing parties, Bolsheviks, parties), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 parties | det |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wing | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 5 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 parties | compound |
| 6 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 began | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Finland | case |
| 8 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 parties | nmod |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 reconsider | mark |
| 11 | reconsider | reconsider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 decision | nmod:poss |
| 13 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reconsider | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 block | mark |
| 15 | block | block | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 reconsider | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 transfer | det |
| 17 | transfer | transfer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 block | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 power | case |
| 19 | supreme | supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 power | amod |
| 20 | executive | executive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 power | amod |
| 21 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 transfer | nmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 government | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 government | det |
| 24 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 government | amod |
| 25 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 block | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Finland | case |
| 27 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 block | obl |
| 28 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 31 came | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Bolsheviks | det |
| 30 | Bolsheviks | Bolshevik | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 came | nsubj |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 block | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 power | case |
| 33 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 came | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Russia | case |
| 35 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 power | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the wing parties in Finland | suddenly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reconsider | to-infinitive | the wing parties in Finland not said here | parties's decision | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | block | to-infinitive | the wing parties in Finland not said here | the transfer of supreme executive power | Finland | the Russian government | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer transfer=Beneficiary from government=Eventuality | ||
| 4 | come | past | the Bolsheviks | power in Russia | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to power=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | decide | parties = party | nom decision «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | transfer | supreme executive power | nom transfer «act transitive»: of=patient |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Finland», 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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