Sweden, sentence 558
From Wikipedia, «Sweden», 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 issue of whether Swedish should be declared the official language had been raised in the past, and the Riksdag voted on the matter in 2005, but the proposal narrowly failed.
Who acts: Riksdag, proposal · What happens: declare, raise, vote, fail, issue · To what, where: issue, official language, past, matter, Swedish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sweden». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Riksdag, proposal), 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 | 2 issue | det |
| 2 | issue | issue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 declared | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Swedish | case |
| 4 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 5 Swedish | case |
| 5 | Swedish | Swedish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 issue | nmod |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 declared | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 declared | aux:pass |
| 8 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 language | det |
| 10 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 language | amod |
| 11 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 raised | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 raised | aux:pass |
| 14 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 declared | ccomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 past | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 past | det |
| 17 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 raised | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 voted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 voted | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Riksdag | det |
| 21 | Riksdag | Riksdag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 voted | nsubj |
| 22 | voted | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 declared | parataxis |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 matter | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 matter | det |
| 25 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 voted | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 2005 | case |
| 27 | 2005 | 2005 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 voted | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 failed | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 failed | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 proposal | det |
| 31 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 failed | nsubj |
| 32 | narrowly | narrowly | ADV | _ | 33 failed | advmod |
| 33 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 voted | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | should · passive | the issue of Swedish | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | raise | past · perfect · passive | the official language | the past | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in past=Destination | ||||
| 3 | vote | past | the Riksdag | the matter | in 2005 | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | fail | past | the proposal | narrowly property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | issue | Swedish | nom issue «cognition 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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