Helsinki, sentence 378
From Wikipedia, «Helsinki», 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.
In 2009 Helsinki was host of the European Figure Skating Championships, and in 2017 it hosted World Figure Skating Championships.
Who acts: European Figure, race · What happens: be, skate, host · To what, where: Helsinki host, 2009, Championships, World Figure, 2017
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Helsinki». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (European Figure, race), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2009 | case |
| 2 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 host | obl |
| 3 | Helsinki | Helsinki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 host | compound |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 host | cop |
| 5 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Figure | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Figure | det |
| 8 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Figure | amod |
| 9 | Figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 host | nmod |
| 10 | Skating | skate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 Figure | acl |
| 11 | Championships | championship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Skating | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hosted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hosted | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 2017 | case |
| 15 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 hosted | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hosted | nsubj |
| 17 | hosted | host | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 host | acl:relcl |
| 18 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Figure | compound |
| 19 | Figure | Figure | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 hosted | obj |
| 20 | Skating | skate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 hosted | advcl |
| 21 | Championships | championship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Skating | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 host | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Helsinki host | 2009 | of the European Figure | tree rules | |||
| 2 | skate | gerund | the European Figure not said here | Championships | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme championship=Location | ||||
| 3 | host | past | race | Helsinki host not said here | World Figure | 2017 | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Beneficiary | ||
| 4 | skate | gerund | race not said here | Championships | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme championship=Location |
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, «Helsinki», 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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