Finland, sentence 30
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.
The Old Norse element finnr behind Finland appears to have been a Scandinavian term for northern neighbours in general, denoting the Sámi in Norwegian usage and the inhabitants of south-western Finland in Swedish usage.
Who acts: Old Norse element finnr · What happens: appear, be, denote · To what, where: general, Scandinavian term, Sámi
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 Norse element finnr), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 finnr | det |
| 2 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 finnr | amod |
| 3 | Norse | norse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 finnr | amod |
| 4 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finnr | compound |
| 5 | finnr | finnr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appears | nsubj |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 Finland | case |
| 7 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 finnr | nmod |
| 8 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 term | mark |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 term | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 term | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 term | det |
| 13 | Scandinavian | scandinavian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 term | amod |
| 14 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appears | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 neighbours | case |
| 16 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 neighbours | amod |
| 17 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 term | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 general | case |
| 19 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 appears | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 denoting | punct |
| 21 | denoting | denote | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 appears | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Sámi | det |
| 23 | Sámi | Sámi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 denoting | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 usage | case |
| 25 | Norwegian | Norwegian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 usage | amod |
| 26 | usage | usage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 denoting | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 inhabitants | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 inhabitants | det |
| 29 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 usage | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Finland | case |
| 31 | south | south | ADV | _ | 33 western | advmod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 south | punct |
| 33 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Finland | amod |
| 34 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 inhabitants | nmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 usage | case |
| 36 | Swedish | Swedish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 usage | amod |
| 37 | usage | usage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 denoting | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | the Old Norse element finnr behind Finland | general | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in general=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive · perfect | the Old Norse element finnr behind Finland not said here | a Scandinavian term | for northern neighbours | tree rules | |||
| 3 | denote | gerund | the Old Norse element finnr behind Finland not said here | the Sámi | in Swedish usage; in Norwegian usage and the inhabitants of western Finland | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot sámi=Theme in usage=Attribute |
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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