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title: There was a demographic boom in the 1990s and first decades of the 2… — Copenhagen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a demographic boom in the 1990s and first decades of the 21st century, largely due to immigration to Denmark. Who acts: demographic boom. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Copenhagen» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Copenhagen, sentence 245

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From Wikipedia, [«Copenhagen»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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There was a demographic boom in the 1990s and first decades of the 21st century, largely due to immigration to Denmark.

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**Who acts:** demographic boom · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Copenhagen». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demographic boom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Copenhagen:245
# text = There was a demographic boom in the 1990s and first decades of the 21st century, largely due to immigration to Denmark.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	demographic	demographic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	boom	boom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	21st	21st	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	immigration	immigration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a demographic boom in the 1990s and first decades of the 21st century |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Copenhagen», 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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