Norway, sentence 463

From Wikipedia, «Norway», 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.

From the 19th century up to the 1970s, the Norwegian government tried to assimilate both the Sámi and the Kven, encouraging them to adopt the majority language, culture and religion.

Who acts: Norwegian government · What happens: try, assimilate, encourage, adopt · To what, where: Sámi, majority language

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Norway». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Norwegian government), 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	From	from	ADP	_	4 century	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 century	det
3	19th	19th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	4 century	amod
4	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tried	obl
5	up	up	ADP	_	8 1970s	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 1970s	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 1970s	det
8	1970s	1970s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	4 century	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 century	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 government	det
11	Norwegian	Norwegian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 government	amod
12	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tried	nsubj
13	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 assimilate	mark
15	assimilate	assimilate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tried	xcomp
16	both	both	CCONJ	_	18 Sámi	cc:preconj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Sámi	det
18	Sámi	Sámi	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 assimilate	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Kven	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Kven	det
21	Kven	Kven	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Sámi	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 encouraging	punct
23	encouraging	encourage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 assimilate	advcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 encouraging	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 adopt	mark
26	adopt	adopt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 encouraging	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 language	det
28	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 language	compound
29	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 adopt	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 culture	punct
31	culture	culture	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 language	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 religion	cc
33	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 culture	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	try	past	the Norwegian government		century	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	assimilate not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Norwegian government not said here	the Sámi and the Kven		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sámi=Patient
3	encourage	gerund	the Norwegian government not said here	Sámi		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	adopt	to-infinitive	the Norwegian government not said here	the majority language and culture and religion		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Theme

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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Norway, sentence 463