Finland, sentence 43
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Based upon linguistic evidence, Finland seems to have been primarily inhabited by speakers of Paleo-European languages prior to the migration of the Finno-Ugric peoples, which influenced the Sámi languages who were the first Finno-Ugric peoples to move towards Finland.
Who acts: Finland, speakers, migration, Sámi languages, Ugric peoples · What happens: base, seem, inhabit, influence, be, move · To what, where: linguistic evidence, Sámi languages, first Ugric peoples, Finland
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 (Finland, speakers, migration, Sámi languages), 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 | Based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 evidence | case |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 evidence | case |
| 3 | linguistic | linguistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 evidence | amod |
| 4 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seems | punct |
| 6 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 seems | nsubj |
| 7 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 evidence | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 inhabited | mark |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 inhabited | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 inhabited | aux:pass |
| 11 | primarily | primarily | ADV | _ | 12 inhabited | advmod |
| 12 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 seems | xcomp |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 speakers | case |
| 14 | speakers | speaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 inhabited | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 languages | case |
| 16 | Paleo | Paleo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 languages | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Paleo | punct |
| 18 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 languages | amod |
| 19 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 speakers | nmod |
| 20 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 23 migration | case |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 prior | fixed |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 migration | det |
| 23 | migration | migration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 languages | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 peoples | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 peoples | det |
| 26 | Finno | Finno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Ugric | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Finno | punct |
| 28 | Ugric | Ugric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 peoples | compound |
| 29 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 migration | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 influenced | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 influenced | nsubj |
| 32 | influenced | influence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 migration | acl:relcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 languages | det |
| 34 | Sámi | Sámi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 languages | compound |
| 35 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 influenced | obj |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 peoples | nsubj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 peoples | cop |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 peoples | det |
| 39 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 43 peoples | amod |
| 40 | Finno | Finno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Ugric | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 Finno | punct |
| 42 | Ugric | Ugric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 peoples | compound |
| 43 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 languages | acl:relcl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 move | mark |
| 45 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 influenced | advcl |
| 46 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 47 Finland | case |
| 47 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 move | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 evidence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | base | participle | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | seem | present | Finland | linguistic evidence not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | inhabit | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | speakers of Paleo European languages prior the migration of the Ugric peoples | primarily property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | influence | past | the migration of the Ugric peoples | the Sámi languages | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the Sámi languages | the first Ugric peoples | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | move | to-infinitive | the migration of the Ugric peoples not said here | Finland | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards finland=Trajectory | ||||
| 8 | migrate | the Ugric peoples | nom migration «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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