Finland, sentence 149
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.
However, in the hope of preserving Finland's independence, the United States provided secret development aid and supported the Social Democratic Party.
Who acts: hope, United States · What happens: preserve, provide, support · To what, where: independence, secret development aid, hope, Social Democratic Party
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 (hope, United States), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 15 provided | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hope | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hope | det |
| 5 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 provided | obl |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 preserving | mark |
| 7 | preserving | preserve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 hope | acl |
| 8 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 independence | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Finland | case |
| 10 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 preserving | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hope | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 States | det |
| 13 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 States | amod |
| 14 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 provided | nsubj |
| 15 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 aid | amod |
| 17 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 aid | compound |
| 18 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 provided | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 supported | cc |
| 20 | supported | support | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 provided | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Party | det |
| 22 | Social | Social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Party | amod |
| 23 | Democratic | Democratic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Party | amod |
| 24 | Party | Party | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 supported | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preserve | gerund | the hope not said here | Finland's independence | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | provide | past | the United States | secret development aid | the hope | however property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition aid=Theme | ||
| 3 | support | past | the United States not said here | the Social Democratic Party | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer party=Stimulus |
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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