Finland, sentence 648
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.
Pesäpallo, the Finnish equivalent of American baseball, is the national sport of Finland, although the most popular sport in terms of spectators is ice hockey.
Who acts: Pesäpallo, popular sport · What happens: be, term · To what, where: national sport, ice hockey, spectators
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 (Pesäpallo, popular sport), 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 | Pesäpallo | Pesäpallo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sport | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 equivalent | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 equivalent | det |
| 4 | Finnish | finnish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 equivalent | amod |
| 5 | equivalent | equivalent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pesäpallo | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 baseball | case |
| 7 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 baseball | amod |
| 8 | baseball | baseball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 equivalent | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pesäpallo | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sport | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sport | det |
| 12 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sport | amod |
| 13 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Finland | case |
| 15 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sport | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sport | punct |
| 17 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 21 sport | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sport | det |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 popular | advmod |
| 20 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sport | amod |
| 21 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hockey | nsubj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 terms | case |
| 23 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sport | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 spectators | case |
| 25 | spectators | spectator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 terms | nmod |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 hockey | cop |
| 27 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hockey | compound |
| 28 | hockey | hockey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sport | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sport | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Pesäpallo | the national sport | of Finland | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the popular sport in terms of spectators | ice hockey | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | term | spectators | nom term «communication 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.
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