Finland, sentence 203
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.
As a result, the old sea bottom turns little by little into dry land: the surface area of the country is expanding by about 7 km2 annually.
Who acts: old sea bottom, surface area · What happens: turn, expand · To what, where: dry land
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 (old sea bottom, surface area), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 result | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 result | det |
| 3 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turns | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 result | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bottom | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bottom | amod |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bottom | compound |
| 8 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turns | nsubj |
| 9 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 turns | xcomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 little | case |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 turns | obl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 14 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 land | amod |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turns | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 expanding | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 area | det |
| 18 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 area | compound |
| 19 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 expanding | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 country | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 country | det |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 area | nmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 expanding | aux |
| 24 | expanding | expand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 turns | conj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 7 | case |
| 26 | about | about | ADV | _ | 27 7 | advmod |
| 27 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 expanding | obl |
| 28 | km2 | km2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 7 | flat |
| 29 | annually | annually | ADV | _ | 24 expanding | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | the old sea bottom | dry land | as a result; by little; little property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme by little=Source into land=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | expand | present · progressive | the surface area of the country | by 7; annually property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.
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